[lazyasciiart]

The most hilarious thing is that I learned recently that when they applied to be a state, the people from WA requested to be the state of Columbia. But a Kentucky rep said that would be too easily confused with the District of Columbia, and Congress changed it to Washington.

[GJim]

> when they applied to be a state, the people from WA

Western Australia?

[lazyasciiart]

Yes. Little known fact, it was renamed Washington by Congress.