我怎么和这帮“流氓”一起工作？

今天TEAM开会，离开会时间还差几分钟，大家聊天聊开了，一个同事问大家有没有看到不久前离开的同事最近在FACEBOOK上贴了一张她和她的GRANDMA的照片，好几个同事都说看到了，我也是其中一个，说完我又补充到，我说“Pete posted the picture!”. PETE是那位前同事的老公。说完这句话，老板对我说“你能很快重复一下你刚才说的吗？”我较快地重复了一下“Pete posted the picture!” 老板接着说“那你能快速地说Peter Piper picked a peck of picked peppers吗？”。 我说“What? What? What?”.  大家一起笑了，很显然这是一个英文绕口令（Tongue Twisters)啊，我说 “Can you repeat it again? My tongue is very fast and very flexible as well! ”话音刚落，这边二个男同事瞪大眼睛看着我，那边几个女同事捂着嘴在那里坏笑，我一下子反应过来他们为什么要笑，我红了脸，心想“你们这帮流氓！”。

开会结束了，我让老板把那个绕口令写下来，我要练习，他说你如果有兴趣，可以练习念整首诗，这首诗是这样的：

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

（originally published in the 1813 book entitled “Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation” by John Harris）。

请不要查字典，多少人知道这里的peck是啥意思？

另一个同事知道我这个人喜欢音乐喜欢唱歌，于是发了一个Email给我，读着挺有意思的，在此收藏了。

This one has more musical intonations…so to speak!

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!
A dull, dark dock, a life-long lock,
A short, sharp shock, a big black block!
To sit in solemn silence in a pestilential prison,
And awaiting the sensation
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

（by W.S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan from The Mikado）

我还从心底里感激这帮“流氓”同事！