Alright! Hope all concerned have had a good time since last week's journey through time. Oh I mean the animal kingdom. Moving swiftly along, I shake you firmly by the hand and welcome you warmly to this week's mystifying encounter with the Aye-Aye.
The Aye-Aye is a quite freaky put together creature, and due to it's monstrous proportions, it has been used in many major Hollywood movies. For example, Scream, Hostel, Saw, Bambi, Nightmare on Elm Street and The Shining all include visuals or references to Aye-Aye's. This is because the sight alone of an Aye-Aye is enough to make a grown man wet his trousers in fear, or make a grown women shriek shrilly in sacredness. Just look at the picture. Look at it. If that does not hammer fear into your heart like, well a hammer, then you are indeed a person with nerves of steel, and depending on your gender, either balls of thunder, or breasts of iron. For I, after first seeing this fearsome creature, did verily run home crying, like a little Nancy girl, and cowered, shaking under my blanket for days on end.
In addition to the growing popularity of Aye-Aye usage in horror blockbusters, the Aye-Aye is still regarded as a very difficult creature to work with, or indeed be around at all. If you notice in the pictures enclosed, while the Aye-Aye has a hand very like that of the common primate, it has an extremely long and thin middle finger. This is known as it's "Pimp finger" for no apparent reason. Nature Detectives have long worked on exposing an Aye-Aye prostitution ring, but have yet to reveal any untoward goings on.
It is believed that Aye-Ayes originated in the former state of Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) and were then brought to different parts of the world by stowing away on ships and other vessels of the sort. After this, pirates began taking on these mini stowaways as pets. It is believed that this is where the common pirate slang "Aye-Aye" originated from. The continued usage of the elongated middle finger also gave the Aye-Ayes a reputation as a very rude creature indeed, and this also gave rise to the phrase "Cussing like a Sailor". In fact, Aye-Ayes have been the reason behind the derivation of many phrases, including, but not limited to: "Gerrup outta tha!", "In fairness ya would, but ya wouldn't brag about it!" and "Too many Aye-Ayes spoil the broth", which was later updated to include humans.
Ding Dong! Oh no, unfortunately that means we have to bring a close to today's lovely little visit. Do be sure to come back, as I promise I'll have cake and tea next time!
SO until next time friends, I've been Paul Griffin, good luck, good health and drive safe
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