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

My name is Balaji, a are very common name in Southern India. Unless I am a first mover in a forum, this name is usually taken.

So to make it easy took first letter from my name and my father's name, and spelt it using aviation phonetics.

BravoMike!

When I created my email ID years back, girishnehete (Girish+Nehete - first name+last name) was already taken. Hence, removed the i's from Girish and added the surname.
Eversince, the username has remained same in almost all websites.

Mine came from a conversation that i had with my father regarding speed - shortly before my membership was approved. Its either only that or more if the road allows! Even on the Ntorq when my dad is pillion :-XD

Mine story is rather random, dating back a few years ago. While going out with some friends from school, we had a taxi driver who took the entrance ramp of a cloverleaf junction of Hyderabad's ORR in... let's just say, a spirited manner. While the others in the car had the living daylights scared out of them, I myself enjoyed those 30 or so seconds! Following that, someone said "unexpected practical demonstration of centrifugal force right there", to which I replied "I enjoyed that." If I recall correctly, it was sometime after my exams, so the information was fresh in our minds. rl:

Hence, when making my username a year minus 20 days ago, that comment came back to me and I modified it to GForceEnjoyer in an attempt to signify that I enjoy acceleration in addition to cornering too. My profile picture is in fact of the G-Force meter of an Audi R8. :)

I think I may have posted this before, I don't remember.

My name is derived from konnakol, the language of South-Indian percussion. When I first heard this combination, it struck me that it sounds like an American name. They do use Thad as a name, and like to include initials too.

What combination? Well, anyone who has been to mridangam class should get it. Hint: if you are saying it right, it takes 7 beats.

Oh! this is easy.

I am bit of OCD (actually OEM) about everything in life. That includes my car.
Prefer to keep it as-bought condition.

Explains why my first gen Figo still has the original rating headlights (Guys driving the Figo know what I am talking about).

Mine is probably weird.

I play this online browser game called Illyriad and have been doing so since I was in B-School.

My username in that was Small Boy. Mainly because I'm the antithesis of small. At that time, I sported a long beard, an afro hair style, weighed 115 kilos of mostly fat and was 1.89 metres tall. So the name was supposed to be a lark.

Then later, I got penalised by the game admins for breaking what they called the COPPA - Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, by calling myself/posing as underaged.

So I had to change my handle by a single alphabet, and here I am almost a decade later, with the handle of Small Bot, which I've grown to be proud of.

Well, mine is from my standard handle I started using right from my online gaming days with Counter-Strike v1.6 followed by COD-warfares/warzones and later with the popular battle royale games like PUBG, COD-mobile etc.

It was always the same handle there from ages and the legacy continues ;)

I claim myself Mystic as I am in an elusive search for enlightenment which is impossible for normal people like me to get an answer with in my life span.

My grandfather UG Krishnamurti took 50 years to find enlightenment and Bhaghavan Ramana Maharshi took more than a decade to find it. UG says not to waste time in search of enlightenment.

UG had an encounter at a very young age of 21 years with Bhaghavan Ramana Maharshi and he asked Ramana “Can you give me what you have?”. Ramana Maharishi ignored him but he persisted and asked the question again, “Whatever you have, can you give it to me. Finally, the master replied, “I can give you, but can you take it?” This left Krishnamurthi in shock and it took decades of search by UG before he found enlightenment.

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Originally Posted by Thad E Ginathom (Post 5544329)

For a long time I believed that it is a Burmese or Thai name rl:! Then one day I read about the mridangam connection and was like 'Ah!'

I was a determined biotech undergrad once upon a time, in a different life. "Locus" means the exact spot on a chromosome where a gene is located. So I had created an email ID that had "locus" in it. My Team-BHP handle is just a watered-down alphabetical version of my alphanumeric email ID and Bob's your uncle.

Oh, and I ditched biotech for IT straight out of college and here I am.