I should lay claim to that one. Years ago when I visited "down under" I had occasion to visit the national zoo in Brisbane where tourists could have their photographs taken with live koalas.
The currators were very careful to explain how to hold them so that they would feel confident and not tear your shoulders off in their haste to gain better purchase. They told me to hold my hands in front of my waist like I was forming a cup (one slightly overlapping the other). They explained the koala would sit in my hands with its front paws on or over my shoulders. When my turn came I dutifully "assumed the position" and prepared to receive the creature (*). They placed one in my hands, and positioned its front paws on my shoulders. They have LONG SHARP claws! The smile seen in the photograph was actually a grimace of pain as those claws made semi-permanent indentations. If that wasn't enough however, that nice animal decided I should forever remember the experience... that's right, just as they took it from me, it left me a present in my hands. Of course, the currators denied it was a common phenomenon all the while they were giving me "handy wipes" from an industrial sized container that "just happened" to be there.
So, as a duly anointed brother Koala, how can I not now be known as:
Space "Koala" Turtel
(*) Lest any of you fall for the cover story let it be known henceforth and forevermore that Koalas are not the cute and cuddly creatures they are made out to be. The truth is they spit and bite a lot! The saving grace is that they eat a lot of Eucalyptus which has the beneficial side effect of acting like a Koala Valium. It really "mellows them out" and makes them sufficiently sluggish that people like you and I can safely hold them (if you call my experience "safe." 8^)