A Portable Staircase for Trees - Neatorama

The is the CanopyStair. It’s a portable and removable spiral staircase that straps securely to the trunk of a tree. Robert McIntyre and Thor ter Kulve designed it after a visit to the Azores. They stayed in a house near the sea, but because of obstructions, they couldn’t see the sea until they climbed a tree. It occurred to them that there had to be an easier way to get to the top of a tree for recreational purposes. For their final project at the Royal College of Art, McIntyre and ter Kulve built an apparatus that will do precisely that.

The CanopyStair is made with an aluminum frame and held in place with ratchet straps. It takes about 3 hours for 2 people to assemble. Pads protect the tree bark from damage by the stairs. A railing makes it safer for people to climb the full 20 feet that the CanopyStair rises into the air.

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Thank you! I aim to please.

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I saw something similar to this one time, but what was it called...? Oh right, a ladder!

I went to the site expecting some super pretentious BS description. I was not disappointed.

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Somehow I doubt that was a "mistake"...

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I doubt that's real at all.

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nice and supple.... hehehehehehehe

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@BellPepper- that made me lol.

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Definitely intentional. Play more Trivial Pursuit, and you'll see questions worded like this all the time.

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Dobalina is quite right. There is no mistake here. Just good old double entendre.

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I'm sure this was intentional.

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I recall seeing (somewhere on the interwebs) a piece of Potter story, with the 'd' in wand substituted by 'g'. It made for very amusing reading!

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Maybe I just have a dirty, dirty mind, but I can't think of what the "correct" answer could be. Hedwig? Surely not, Wand? Nah, I mean, all the gals at Hogwarts had their own wand, right? so that's not it. Come on, someone help me!

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I was thinking his broomstick, but that has got to be longer than 11 inches...

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Harry's 11 inch pianist was cut out of the books for the movies; I can't believe they cut out all those dank bar scenes, it really changed the flavor of the story.

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As a kid about 8-10 years old, I remember one of my friends discovering a Trivial Pursuit card with the following question: "A man with diphallic terata has two what?" The answer made us giggle endlessly. And I still remember the term 25 years later!

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@ Gary B - it was a classic on bash.org
http://bash.org/?111338

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@Craig - I had a guess (and was right) but googled it anyway, and it seems you're not the only one that it left a big impression on.

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If it gets too well traveled with the girls it may end up with Hogwarts.

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