Sounds to me like the guy is one of those hard-boiled types who can't take a yolk and looks at this as poaching on his turf. Omelette-ing myself get drawn back into this thread because of your crack about hatching pranks, but I think we're scrambling for puns now.
"Omelette-ing myself get drawn back into this thread because of your crack about hatching pranks, but I think we're scrambling for puns now."
I think we could banty about a few more. But I don't want to have to scratch and peck for `em, either.