Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'

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DualVortexPipes
Look ! New, bagless technology
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Vacuum cleaner technology is moving away from bags. UK company Dyson started the trend to vortex dust collection.

It's time bagpipes joined the 20th century. No bag here, just a dual vortex doohickey through which you pass air, at barely subsonic speeds.

Ensuing music will charm birds down from the trees. Think of a cross between a saxophone, a pipe organ, an harmonica and the bagpipes.

Of course, traditionalists will be disappointed that the "bag" is clear perspex, therefore it does not bear the clan tartan of the piper.


UnaBubba, May 17 2002


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       //Ensuing music will charm birds down from the trees

You've not stood too near a piper recently, have you [UnaBubba]? It might *stun* them out of the trees though...

mcscotland, May 17 2002
  

       Bagless cleaners were around long before the Dyson; the major innovation is that the vortexification causes the air to deposit the dust in the dust chamber voluntarily, so to speak, rather than 'because it won't fit through the filter'. This said, the bag in the pre-bagless-cleaner-era cleaner was a reservoir not for air, but for stuff transported by air, and, as such, must be permeable to air, whereas the bag-component of the eponymous pipes must be impermeable to same in order for it's baggy function to be fulfilled.
What you are proposing is a keyed-pipe motor-blown organ. The votexy bit is a chimera.

angel, May 17 2002
  

       Strap a V-8 with a compressed-air supercharger on that puppy and they'll hear you in Moscow.

phoenix, May 17 2002
  

       or take a conventional set of bagpipes to Moscow, then play them..

mymus, May 17 2002
  

       The bag would explode because of the pressure build up.

[ sctld ], May 17 2002
  

       Oh, I thought it was about a double-dicked eunuch.

FarmerJohn, May 17 2002
  

       // or take a conventional set of bagpipes to Moscow, then play them... //   

       Now wait a minute here. We're just now convincing them to become allies...

RayfordSteele, May 23 2002
  

       // The bag would explode because of the pressure build up //   

       I don't recall mentioning a bag.

UnaBubba, May 24 2002
  


 
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