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-{{a|g|[[File:Faxpaper.png|450px|thumb|center|OMG THE EVIDENCE YOU NEED IS UNDER THE DRESSER]]}}The successor in “almost-immediately obsolete contraptions” to the [[telex]] machine and, before that, the canal, nowadays the [[facsimile]] machine is mostly useful for affording bragging rights, both for those who ''can'' remember having to use them and what they were for<ref>Experience and wisdom.</ref>, and those who ''can’t''.<ref>Youth and beauty.</ref>
+{{a|email|{{image|Faxpaper|png|OMG THE EVIDENCE YOU NEED IS UNDER THE FAX MACHINE}}}}The successor in “almost-immediately obsolete contraptions” to the [[telex]] machine and, before that, the canal, nowadays the [[facsimile]] machine is mostly useful for affording bragging rights, both for those who ''can'' remember having to use them and what they were for<ref>Experience and wisdom.</ref>, and those who ''can’t''.<ref>Youth and beauty.</ref>
 The [[fax]] was desperate the last stand of the true analogue communication: a fax started out life as a nice piece of paper and ended up as a nasty one: a horrid, waxy, faded piece of parchment resembling the [[Loo paper rep|loo paper]] you used to get in nasty educational establishments.
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 A [[fax]] machine that dropped paper on the floor which curled up and rolled under a filing cabinet was an important [[McGuffin]] in the ''denouement'' of John Grisham’s [[espievie]] thriller, ''The Firm''. Not to be out-done, [[Hunter Barkley]]’s forthcoming novel {{br|The ISDA Protocol}} is going to involve a malfunctioning [[telex]].
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-*[[Dictaphone]]
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