Speaking of monkeys, where else in the world but in monkey Queensland would the abbreviation QLD represent Queensland??

What happened there - the pollies said, "Well, Queensland is so hard to pronounce, let alone spell, for our voters, lets give them something to shorten it to."

And so they discussed it - the public wanted it to just be one letter, because that would be easier to remember, and of course the natural letter to choose in that case would be K - cos that's how most of them incorrectly began the spelling of their state name.

Others said, "No - let's make it two letters!" (Queensland intellectuals!) and their suggestion was therefore KW, being the first two letters of how most of them incorrectly started their state name.

If the rest of the country took the Queensland approach to abbreviations, we would have VTN, NUS, NOY, SHA, WNA, TNA (who cares about them!) and ANY.

That's yet another argument for the pile of arguments as to why Queenslander's shouldn't be allowed to vote, hold a license, hold a gun (God help us all!) breed, speak, sing, write or produce racecallers.

Eventually, luckily for all, the politicians asked a Victorian, "What would be the best abbreviation?" He replied, "SHTVL"... which they ended up shortening, to QLD.