And cluck cluck, too. I suspect the writer was searching for something like "balks", but that would have lacked the charm of his actual word choice for the headline.

UPDATE: Ah, I see USA Today trembles at my every editorial sneer. The intrepid Fleck, however, who alerted me, had made a screen shot of the fowl original.

Posted by Moira Breen at January 30, 2004 02:08 PM