Surely they jest?

The pilot on my Virgin Atlantic flight back from the States at the start of this week introduced himself over the intercom as Captain Spunkmeier.

I shouldn't laugh. I know it's a perfectly legitimate name.

I didn't quite catch what he said his first name was. He only said it once, in a brisk mumble. But it sounded like something Greek - an odd combination with the Teutonic surname. Something like Papsmear....

And when he announced his co-pilot as Dirk Diggler, I began to think there was some tomfoolery going on on the flight deck. Was it a bet, I wonder?