Okay, I think "Threepwood" actually comes from Threepio. (3PO)

As for "Guybrush" I don't think it's a fictional name like in MI2 says. A few years ago I was watching Blinky Bill on Cartoon Network and in the end they'd showed Credits (the complete list of people who made the cartoon.) And on the credits list there were a lot of people called Guybrush. Isn't that actually an Australian name?

Oh yeah sure my dads names Guybrush! [/sarcasm]
It's as Australian as warm beer Andrei

Guybrush got his name because that in DPaint you saved pictures in files with the last name "brush". Like "filename.brush" At the time they started Monkey Island they didn't have a name for the hero so they just named him "guy" so the file ended up with the name "guy.brush" After a while Ron Gilbert decided that it should be his name.

"Threepwood" was decided by a company contest.
Guybrush's last name "Threepwood" was in a 1965 book with a character called Galahad Threepwood.

Galahad at Blandings (The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood) by PG Wodhouse

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Originally posted by Grannen
Guybrush got his name because that in DPaint you saved pictures in files with the last name "brush". Like "filename.brush" At the time they started Monkey Island they didn't have a name for the hero so they just named him "guy" so the file ended up with the name "guy.brush" After a while Ron Gilbert decided that it should be his name.

"Threepwood" was decided by a company contest.
Guybrush's last name "Threepwood" was in a 1965 book with a character called Galahad Threepwood.

Galahad at Blandings (The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood) by PG Wodhouse


ahem, coutesy of WOMI (http://www.worldofmi.com)
just in case you were going to take the credit for yourself, not that i'm saying you would do that of couse (no really, i know you wouldn't do that, this is just a link for people who want to know more about this.)

Originally posted by Neil Joshi


ahem, coutesy of WOMI (http://www.worldofmi.com)
just in case you were going to take the credit for yourself, not that i'm saying you would do that of couse (no really, i know you wouldn't do that, this is just a link for people who want to know more about this.)
Of course I found the info on Internet! I made a search for "Guybrush Threepwood" and on "Blanding" (and author). :)
But I admit I should have given credit to WOMI, sorry fot that. :o

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well, i don't exactly work for womi or anything, so i guess i shouldn't've (can i do that to a word?) said that. never mind (this is how arguments are avoided on EFMI, a concept lost on some people here, but not us, mentioning no names at all **coughnamescough**):D

LucasArts is the only peoples that can really take credit I guess.

hehehe I always wondered about Guybrush's name thanx! :D

I know that the Guy in Guybrush came from Lucasarts, they didn't know what to call him so they just named the first part guy.

yes, as explained above (or didn't you bother to read it?)

LOL that might be the problem. :D

Well, thatґs an interesting fact!

If Iґll have a kid someday Iґll call it guy (or brush or something...)
:D

Originally posted by Grannen
Galahad at Blandings (The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood) by PG Wodhouse


Is this book good? Worth buying?

Originally posted by Neil Joshi
yes, as explained above (or didn't you bother to read it?)

Only part of it.:)