Team-BHP - How did you come up with your username?

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Propensity to do lot of miles.

450 Miles in 8 Hours
500 Miles in a day
1600 Kms in 3 days
Leisurely 2300 Kms in 10 days. (Holiday break)

Hence the nick, thought it to be most appropriate:)

Its a nick i have been using ever since i started using Internet, Hotmail,yahoo everywhere i have the same nick. Came across this site when was searching information about my first car. Did not know that it would end up becoming my identity in this Family spread all across India.

But its become famous now, So i dont mind it, Even my car's Wind shield carries a sticker with this nick :D

This was the name I used in one of BBC Five live site for
formula one discussion. The user I wanted was PetrolHead but since it was not available settled with MotorBreating.

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Originally Posted by m4ugr8 (Post 1162565)

The question here is how did you come up with that nick.

My username is the name by which my friends call me and its kind of shortened version of my actual name "Ardhendu".

I might offend a few folks here, I am maried to a punjabi, from POK kashmir migrated to mumbai after the partition. So when ever I used to visit her folks/relatives they used to pull my leg asking me if I was a Madrasi, I used to get pissed off but would smile it away explaining I was from Bangalore. So I coined the word downsouth, it suggests from the south of India.

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Originally Posted by vinaydas (Post 1158296)

simply cause my first name is Das and last is vinay so vinay+das=vinaydas (no im not bengali)

Er... the last note is redundant, because if you were a Bengali,
your first name would be Vinay, and last name Das !

my dad had a friend called ganapathy.. they used to call him guns... so i was guns from the time i was born... and i used to be a big maiden fan (i'm seeing them this sunday) thus the 666

Its a nick i have been using ever since i started using Internet, Hotmail,yahoo everywhere i have the same nick.