Star Wars fans with cash to spare can now buy their very own Ewok-style tree houses. The Free Spirit Spheres are suspended in trees and accessible by rope bridges.

The 11ft wide eco-friendly houses can sleep four, allowing families to live in the forest without the need to worry about their carbon footprint. The hand-crafted wooden spheres are constructed using boat building techniques and are coated in fibreglass making them waterproof and robust. Inside, they are kitted out with a fully equipped kitchen with a microwave, fridge and sink. The rest of the interior, including loft beds and bronze doors can be custom ordered.

Mr Chudleigh, from Vancouver, said: “Uses for these durable Spheres are limited only by one’s imagination. The objective of this project is to be able to move into the rainforest and have an experience of it - with as little impact as possible.”

The spheres take three people no more than three days to put up and can be ordered from www.freespiritspheres.com.

Rooster’s Owner Faces Fine:

It is hard to imagine, but a rooster crowing at the break of dawn has earned his owner a 200 euro ($295) fine in an Italian court after neighbors complained it was waking them up too early. The farmer asked how the judge thought he would raise chickens without at least one rooster. I guess the judge has never heard of ‘the birds and the bees’.

 

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Hooked On Facts:

It takes about a week to make a jelly bean.

In the movie ‘The Wizard Of Oz’, Toto the dog’s salary was $125 a week, while Judy Garland was $500 a week.

There is more real lemon juice in Lemon Pledge furniture polish than in Country Time Lemonade.

Sales of Rolaids, Alka-Seltzer, and Tums jump 20% in December

Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team his sophomore year.

Midgets and dwarfs almost always have normal sized children.

More than 10% of the world’s salt is used to de-ice American roads.

Diet Pepsi was originally called Patio Diet Cola.

 

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Just Joking:

The Perfect Employee:

1 Bob Smith, my assistant programmer, can always be found
2 hard at work at his desk. He works independently, without
3 wasting company time talking to colleagues. Bob never
4 thinks twice about assisting fellow employees, and always
5 finishes given assignments on time. Often he takes extended
6 measures to complete his work, sometimes skipping coffee
7 breaks. Bob is a dedicated individual who has absolutely no
8 vanity in spite of his high accomplishments and profound
9 knowledge in his field. I firmly believe that Bob can be
10 classed as an asset employee, the type which cannot be
11 dispensed with. Consequently, I recommend that Bob be
12 promoted to executive management, and a proposal will be
13 executed as soon as possible.

Addendum:
Sorry, that jerk was standing over my shoulder while I wrote the report sent to you earlier today. Kindly re-read only the odd numbered lines.

Thank You Notes:

One Christmas, a parent decided that she was no longer going to remind her children of their thank-you note duties. As a result, their grandmother did not receive acknowledgments of the generous checks she had given.

However, things were different the following year.

“The children came over in person to thank me,” the grandparent told a friend triumphantly.

“How wonderful!” the friend exclaimed. “What do you think caused the change in their behavior?”

“Oh, that’s easy,” the grandmother replied. “This year I didn’t sign the checks.”

A Divorce:

An elderly man in Phoenix calls his son in New York and says, “I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough.”

“Pop, what are you talking about?” the son screams.

“We can’t stand the sight of each other any longer,” the old man says. “We’re sick of each other, and I’m sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Chicago and tell her,” and he hangs up. Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone. “They’re not getting divorced if I have anything to do about it,” she shouts, “I’ll take care of this.”

She calls Phoenix immediately, and screams at the old man, “You are NOT getting divorced. Don’t do a single thing until I get there. I’m calling my brother back, and we’ll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don’t do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?” and hangs up.

The old man hangs up his phone and turns to his wife and says, “Okay, they’re coming for Thanksgiving...now what do we tell them for Christmas?”