Speaking of odd names, this reminds me of a story here where two people from The Chaser (a satirical show on a government run TV station) booked tickets on Virgin Blue under the names Terry Wrist and Al Kyder and waited for a final call to be made - see http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/al-...5407999231.html

For domestic travel in Aus if you have no bags and check in at the machines, you will never need to show an ID and can hence travel under any name you wish. Virgin was silly enough to make the final call with the names over the whole terminal.

The Chaser have a penchant for pushing the line, they were briefly taken off air last year after doing a skit about kids with cancer.

The funniest (and some may say only) thing about the whole prank was that as it is a government owned tv station, the taxpayers footed the bill for this prank