738.ZC29 Style/life --
For ages the Bnbnsen Pipe was widely used among minutiae-accumulation workers in religious rituals focused on body odor and the dispellings thereof.  In the mid 90's, Bodily Afterlife, the Pipe's most popular model, punctuated the tedium with its excitingly arcane messages of 24 hour protection and time-released anti-perspirant salvation.  Later, it began to grow steadily into the larger culture and beyond its somewhat narrow initial base among die-hard odor information devotees. 

But no one could have predicted that in '99 it would explode on the scene as a hot crossover product positioned as an indoor oragami-emitting sucking/blowing alternative for smokers seeking release from The Humiliation found furtively puffing butts self-consciously in small huddled yellow-fingered groups clustered at the feet of faceless hollowed-out concrete columns of commerce.  Yet, the importance of the seminal functionality of the device paled in comparison to the tertiary, though vastly more significant, benefits now found to be derived by those deemed fortunate indeed to be exposed to the second-hand snOKe of even an inexpensive short-tongued Bnbnsen with no SlickGlideMotion.
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This after Betty had received the Flumfert Company February employee Floppy Label Alignment Award. Betty's placing of labels on floppy disks was far neater and straighter than anyone else's in the division.  Mr. Flumfert, himself, allowed that he could think of no other who excelled to such a degree at this specialty.

See: Data-doers, idood 5.43, etc.