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Favorite most hated dictators......

Posted By: The whistling dictator on 2005-07-16
In Reply to: Oh man! I'm rolling on the floor here! Tooooooooo - omt

His reports are 15-20 minutes long.......and about 7 pages of dictation and about and hour of whistling to fill the caps when he is looking for information in the chart. To top it off.......he dictates in a monotone. My eardrums are killing me!


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