There was an article in NIC a few years back about Genrik Chepukaitis; I think the article is called 'Smart chip from St Petersburg'. Anyway, guy was a modest standard player, but an incredible blitz player. He used to play offbeat openings like this.
One time, against a very strong old-school Soviet GM (forgot who: Polu? Taimanov? someone like that...) in a blitz tourney, Chepu plays 1 d4 d5, 2 Bg5. GM, blitzing on autopilot, plays 2...e6, and Chepu, without missing a beat, plays 3 Bxd8. GM gives Chepu a long, pained look, and says 'You should be serving beer, not playing chess'.
whenever I see this opening, I think of that story...
(can anyone fill in Black's name; thanks...)