[great_guns]

Originally Posted by Samurai

Sam, you forgot mention that Captain Nemo was actually an Indian prince. That connection is explained in the later book Mysterious Island, where Jules Verne describes the last moments and death of Caption Nemo.

When Caption Nemo was played Naseeruddin Shah in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, there were lot of surprised people to whom I had to explain the connection.

Wow, is that really true? I have a copy of 20,000 leagues in my cupboard but its a long time since I bought and last read it.

[drvhplyevraftr]

Like in a fairy tale, where the prince and princess live happily ever after,
it was because of team-bhp that I started to love my drive. Hence I
chose drvhplyevraftr as my handle which is shortened form for
drivehappilyeverafter.

[ceejay123]

My surname starts with "c" and my name starts with "j" so my friends call me CJ .BuT many websites wanted a big user name so i had to strech my name without changing the pronouncation so i came up with ceejay123.

[9thsphinx]

Originally my Counter Strike alias back in Canada. My room was on the 9th floor and room # was 911 We had to add a floor number prefix to a CS Tag which is where i got the '9th' from and i had been using 'sphinx' as a nick since like forever... Therefore, 9thsphinx.

[Nitronium]

The element every car/bike lover has inside him/her.

Nitronium.

[Blur]

It's how the world looks, when you are flooring the pedal.

Blur.

[absynthguzzler]

Drank too much of it, decided to hit the bed , started hallucinating and ended up running around campus in my boxers shouting "white rabbits! white rabbits ! white rabbits are chasing me !!!"

[bonobashi]

Originally Posted by rowhun

Inspite of being an early adapter to the internet, I could hardly ever find a 'rohan' as a available username. And hence came up with rowhun. It also has some connotations to my wild-side (hah!) which is why it has a 'Hun' and then all these Huns and Vikings were awesome sailors and their battleships were awesome, so i chose 'row'.

Big Chief,

You seem to be alone, without your sub-chiefs and hordes in attendance, so I am venturing on a mild clarification.

The Vikings bit is fine, they were great sea-farers, but it made me slightly queasy to see you mentioning Huns in this connection. The closest they are likely to have got to the seas is passing by the Aral Sea, the Caspian Sea, later, the Black Sea. They were nomads of the steppes, originating, according to some historians, north of China; these accounts link them to the people that Chinese annals called the Hiung Nu, people who had a major influence on Indian history in an indirect way. So the original Huns would have been queasy - like me at the moment - if not downright sea-sick at getting on board a ship on the high seas.

Unless you are referring to the British using the term 'Huns' about their rivals in two world wars, the Germans. This was pure slander. Ironically, the Germans, or derivatives of those, originally stopped Attila's hordes at the battle of Chalons (Theodoric the Visigoth king leading an alliance including several Germanic tribes and the Romans of Gaul against Attila). Several centuries later, they stopped the Magyars (another steppe people falsely linked with the Huns) at Lechfeld, under King Henry the Fowler. The British really weren't being very fair.

These 'Huns' did, however, have battleships. Big ones, some think better ones.

So you now have the choice of names narrowing down a bit, if you want to retain a link with the sea. Have you toyed with the possibilities of Rowving, which (etymology apart) a Viking did rather endlessly; or, if you prefer being a little more up with the times, Rowking? You could set off across the Atlantic with that, or be idle on the Isis, casual on the Cam, or shake a leg at a disco, or annoy Judge Vyas, who doesn't think people should use royal titles any longer, all at one fell stroke. Do keep us posted.

bonobashi

[65Mustang]

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[johnda]

I think Johnda is better than HondaJoe!
johnda is for Joe's Honda

[Parm]

my name is Parminder Singh, so Parm is what i chose to use in this forum.

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[greenhorn]

The first Computer game I ever played was "call of duty" Simply loved it. greenhorn was the easiest setting. Later I learnt that greenhorn was another name for newbie, and liked the sound of it , so

[harry10]

Was just trying this user name and seems now am stuck with it!

[ak916]

AK being my initials and wanted some numbers to make my user name have atleast 5 charecters... so "916" - being one of my favourite bikes during school/college days... I loved the "innovative" set-up it came with (Underseat exhausts, mono swingarm) and of course the fact that it is the predecessor to the 996 and the oh-so-good-looking Agusta F4...

[Travelbug]

My Friends says that I'm bitten by a Travel Bug so name goes "Travelbug"