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November 16, 2009
Beat 360° 11/16/09
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Ready for today's Beat 360°? Everyday we post a picture – and you provide the caption and our staff will join in too. Tune in tonight at 10pm to see if you are our favorite! Here is the 'Beat 360°' pic:

(Getty Images) Hulk Hogan arrives at Sydney Airport, ahead of the Australian Hulkamania tour.

Have fun with it. We're looking forward to your captions! Make sure to include your name, city, state (or country) so we can post your comment.

UPDATE BEAT 360º WINNERS

Staff:

Eli Lazar

“How about we send these guns to our troop in Afghanistan, Mr President.”

Viewer:

Kevin Haggith Toronto Canada

"Until you scrolled up and saw my head, I bet you thought it was that Anderson Cooper guy, right?"

_________________________________________________________________________________ Beat 360° Challenge

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Patty A Banks, Palmdale, CA   November 16th, 2009 5:23 pm ET

Tweet this Wolf Blitzer!

Ewan Touma   November 16th, 2009 5:28 pm ET

Hulk Hogan: "I'm so glad the pilots don't fall asleep behind the wheel here like they do back home!"

Ewan Touma
London, Ontario, Canada

Patty A Banks, Palmdale, CA   November 16th, 2009 5:29 pm ET

Shhhh....Hulk Hogan muscle whisperer is here!

Ewan Touma   November 16th, 2009 5:29 pm ET

Hulk Hogan, "Don't mind the wife behind me, she's just trying to get my shirt off my back."

Ewan Touma
London, Ontario, Canada.

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 5:30 pm ET

If you eat your vitamins and say your players, you can be like me too!

Walter   November 16th, 2009 5:34 pm ET

Do these look like shrimp to you?

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 5:35 pm ET

Do you want an invite for a real Thanksgiving dinner with me, or spend it with Aunt Katie?

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 5:39 pm ET

These arms got me down here. No planes, trains, or automobiles needed!

Tarja, Finland   November 16th, 2009 5:44 pm ET

Feast your eyes on this, koalas!

Fun E Man   November 16th, 2009 5:44 pm ET

The Hulk issues a cage match challenge to the punk kid that is living in his house with his ex – wife.

Kevin Haggith Toronto Canada   November 16th, 2009 5:46 pm ET

"Until you scrolled up and saw my head, I bet you thought it was that Anderson Cooper guy, right?"

Tim Gibson   November 16th, 2009 5:47 pm ET

Hulk Hogan is named the new haven't got a clue czar to the Obama administration shadow cabinet.

Tim Gibson
San Diego, CA

Kevin Haggith Toronto Canada   November 16th, 2009 5:48 pm ET

Hogan shows off the big guns that he easily got through security at Sydney Airport .

Richard Hine, New York City   November 16th, 2009 5:48 pm ET

Hulk Hogan displays one of the few assets he was able to keep in his recent divorce

Patty A Banks, Palmdale, CA   November 16th, 2009 5:51 pm ET

See kids what you'll look like if you eat your spinach!

Charlotte, California   November 16th, 2009 5:51 pm ET

I'm ready for my flu shot.

debbie, san diego   November 16th, 2009 5:52 pm ET

Hey Mates, I just flew in from California and boy are my arms massive...I mean tired.

Garrett Denney   November 16th, 2009 5:52 pm ET

"Obama may have beat me on the court, but I'd like to see him try me in arm wrestling!"

Darrell Rock Hill S.C.   November 16th, 2009 5:53 pm ET

The Hulk journeys down under to challenge Jackman or Crowe to beat these guns! Anderson too!

JP Gossard (Montreal Qc)   November 16th, 2009 5:55 pm ET

That injection spot is from the flu shot NOT from steroids!

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 5:56 pm ET

Like Elmo, I tickle under here.

Isabel, Brazil   November 16th, 2009 5:56 pm ET

Hulk Hogan on his way to Fox News....to arm wrestle with the arm of the Republican party

Patty A Banks, Palmdale, Ca   November 16th, 2009 6:01 pm ET

Hulk Hogan seen outside Cnn trying to muscle his way into the Situation Room

Alicia C   November 16th, 2009 6:01 pm ET

I still got it

mary shaw, colorado springs co   November 16th, 2009 6:01 pm ET

Another good American business outsourced.

Patty A Banks, Palmdale, Ca   November 16th, 2009 6:04 pm ET

Hulk: 'kids, eat your brocolli & you'll look like me when you grow up!"
Kids: "You lie!"

Rhonda-Palm Harbor Florida   November 16th, 2009 6:04 pm ET

Taste like chicken BROTHER!

Barbara Riess   November 16th, 2009 6:04 pm ET

RIGHT HERE MOMMY...THAT'S WHERE THEY GAVE ME THE H1N1!
SHOT!

Pamela Aljoe, Northern Ontario Canada   November 16th, 2009 6:05 pm ET

Of course I got my H1N1 SHOT...right here

Rianna   November 16th, 2009 6:06 pm ET

YES! Linda's name is gone! Jennifer's face goes here!

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 6:06 pm ET

There's no need for NY Trials; I'm an environmentally-friendly detainee head squeezer!

Joshua Shinn (San Bernardino, Ca)   November 16th, 2009 6:07 pm ET

I've got more where that came from Levi Johnston.

Patty A Banks, Palmdale, Ca   November 16th, 2009 6:07 pm ET

Hulk:"Kids, eat your veggies & you'll look like me when you grow up!"
Kids:"What if we don't want to look like you, when we grow up?

geno oklahoma   November 16th, 2009 6:08 pm ET

how ya like gun # 2. any lip you'll see # 1 gun up and close brother

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 6:08 pm ET

I got this are by twittering!

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 6:09 pm ET

I got this arm by twittering!

Arlo Cansino, Belize   November 16th, 2009 6:11 pm ET

I want to see a kangaroo try to mess with these guns

Jennie   November 16th, 2009 6:13 pm ET

Hulk Hoagan, the CDC's new Swine Flu Immunization Spokesperson, proudly shows off his injection site at a press conference in Austrailia.

Mike H.   November 16th, 2009 6:14 pm ET

I'm ripped enough to tear you in pieces, just like I used to tear off my rag shirts.

Mike Hubs
Greensboro NC

Allan A Toms River, NJ   November 16th, 2009 6:16 pm ET

I got my swine flu shot right here.

Mary Louise Helwig-Rodriguez   November 16th, 2009 6:17 pm ET

So you think you're "koalafied" to take me on? Eat my eucalyptus people!
Mary Louise, Little Falls, NJ

Husni Ashiku   November 16th, 2009 6:20 pm ET

Hulk Hogan here showing his results from his new work out: 3 sets of 15 Curls of The Health-Care Bill.

Name: Husni Ashiku (who's KNEE)
CITY, STATE: POLO, IL

Patty A Banks, Palmdale, Ca   November 16th, 2009 6:22 pm ET

This arm is equipped with, gps, on star, & of course I got milk!

San, East Lansing, MI   November 16th, 2009 6:23 pm ET

Tickets to the gun show anyone?

Dave Tucson, AZ   November 16th, 2009 6:24 pm ET

Matilda is about meet the pythons!

Dima - Washington (State)   November 16th, 2009 6:24 pm ET

check my guns! they're almost as big as larry king's.

Tim Gibson   November 16th, 2009 6:24 pm ET

Mess with my heatlh care and get some of these guns.

Tim Gibson
San Diego, CA

Isabel Siaba (Brazil)   November 16th, 2009 6:25 pm ET

Look Anderson!
I want to see if your biceps are like mine!

Joe Lisella, San Francisco, CA   November 16th, 2009 6:25 pm ET

focus on this arm...the rest shows the toll of a 59-year-old who abused steroids for decades.

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 6:25 pm ET

100% "Made in the U.S.A." muscle!

howard ocala,fl   November 16th, 2009 6:26 pm ET

show off!!!!!!!

Walter   November 16th, 2009 6:27 pm ET

Take the photo, I cannot hold this flex any longer.

Richard   November 16th, 2009 6:28 pm ET

These guns are from training, saying my prayers, and eating my... um... "vitamins"... yeah... vitamins.

Isabel Siaba (Brazil)   November 16th, 2009 6:29 pm ET

My bipecs are equal to those of Anderson, only tan!

Husni Ashiku   November 16th, 2009 6:31 pm ET

ANDERSON COOPER HAS GOT NOTHING ON ME BROTHER!

Husni (whos Knee)
Ashiku (a-sheek-u)

POLO, IL

Craig in NorCal   November 16th, 2009 6:33 pm ET

Foster's: Australian for Beer.
Hulk-a-mania: American for tanned, roided up arms.

dominic   November 16th, 2009 6:34 pm ET

Check out these guns, mate!

john in santa barbara   November 16th, 2009 6:36 pm ET

Only punks need tatoos.

Robert - Palm Desert, CA   November 16th, 2009 6:36 pm ET

I don't bow to nobody...Crocodile Dundee...Japanese emperor...nobody, dude.

Wyatt Knight - New York   November 16th, 2009 6:38 pm ET

"Talk to the arm."

-Wyatt Knight

Sam   November 16th, 2009 6:39 pm ET

Retirement is for SISSIES brotha! These guns are paying off my ex-wife's debts?!

Mark   November 16th, 2009 6:39 pm ET

"I've been going rogue my entire career, Brother! And I don't believe in concealing my 'guns' ! "

Mark
Sacramento, CA

Christopher Pulicken   November 16th, 2009 6:41 pm ET

Hulk: "This muscle is probably bigger than Sarah Palin's clothing budget!"

The Press: "That can't be possible."

Friendswood, Texas

Robert - Palm Desert, CA   November 16th, 2009 6:42 pm ET

These muscles gonna take me to the governor's mansion. And, because I'm a real American – and eligible for bigger things – I ain't gonna stop in some state capitol. Y'all catch my drift?

Julie, Rancho Cucamonga, CA   November 16th, 2009 6:43 pm ET

Pacquiao! Want some of this?

Anthony - Apex, NC   November 16th, 2009 6:43 pm ET

Hulk Hogan promotes his new tattoo removal business.

Nadal Oris   November 16th, 2009 6:46 pm ET

Look! It is as big as life! Can you imagine!

Nazim in Houston   November 16th, 2009 6:46 pm ET

John McCain hits the gym in preparation for the 2012 election.

Don-------------Oswego, IL.   November 16th, 2009 6:46 pm ET

HEY !!! --–" Check out the tatoo of my ex-wife's brain '

Michael Rovaris, Colorado Springs   November 16th, 2009 6:47 pm ET

When the NTSB agent told me I couldn’t take my GUNS, that when all hell broke loose, Brother!

Robert - Palm Desert, CA   November 16th, 2009 6:47 pm ET

Saaay, dude, if Stallone can still play Rocky and Rambo, why can't I still play Hulk Hogan?

Alisha Radich - Goodyear AZ   November 16th, 2009 6:49 pm ET

This is where the power lies!

Jon - Melbourne, FL   November 16th, 2009 6:52 pm ET

Anderson Cooper's workout mentor.

Mike, formerly from Syracuse   November 16th, 2009 6:52 pm ET

The person I'd most like to see interrogate a terrorist.

Kenneth Prochnow   November 16th, 2009 6:52 pm ET

Guns 'n Roids! Yeah!

Lori , Boston   November 16th, 2009 6:55 pm ET

Hulk Hogan trying to persuade Anderson to join the muscle tour.

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 6:56 pm ET

I just tweeted all my hulkamaniacs & look at this arm!

david d   November 16th, 2009 6:57 pm ET

Following footsteps of Connecticut wrestling magnate Linda MacMahon, The Hulkster announces run for gladiator of Australian Senate.

Andy W   November 16th, 2009 6:58 pm ET

It's not a turmor!

david d   November 16th, 2009 7:00 pm ET

Flexing muscle to enter competition in Australian Wrestlemania 59, to take on ex-wife's teen boyfriend.

Bill Ralstin/Calgary, Alta   November 16th, 2009 7:00 pm ET

Look at what the H1N1 shot did to my arm. It is so sore I could cry.

Cindy Panackia   November 16th, 2009 7:02 pm ET

Do you really think that is my biggest muscle?

Riverview, Mi

Douglas Maat   November 16th, 2009 7:02 pm ET

Who says the H1N1 flu shot doesn't hurt?...You can see the mark, right here.

Young Moon - Tacoma, WA   November 16th, 2009 7:03 pm ET

God created the Heavens, he created the earth! He created all the Hulkamaniacs! Then, he created a set of 24-inch pythons, WHATCHA GONNA DO brother!

Jack in Bali, Indonesia   November 16th, 2009 7:04 pm ET

Whatdya mean? My antiperspirant ain't making it?

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 7:04 pm ET

I photograph best from the left but I'm Right!

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 7:10 pm ET

Go ahead...hit me here as hard as you can! Come on....right here...

Janine from PA.   November 16th, 2009 7:11 pm ET

Welcome to the "Bulkamania" tour mates.

Kent - Weston MA   November 16th, 2009 7:12 pm ET

GET YOUR FLU SHOT TODAY!

Greg Myers,Houston TX   November 16th, 2009 7:15 pm ET

These guns will blow you away............BROTHER!

Patrick from Columbia, SC   November 16th, 2009 7:16 pm ET

What happens in Sydney, stays in Sydney.

Tarja, Finland   November 16th, 2009 7:17 pm ET

Biceps to look up to, Anderson !

Patrick from Columbia, SC   November 16th, 2009 7:19 pm ET

Hulk Hogan challenges his muscles to a wrestling match.

gary DIETRICH   November 16th, 2009 7:20 pm ET

thats right, powered by anabolic !

Patrick from Columbia, SC   November 16th, 2009 7:21 pm ET

Hulk Hogan gets all fired up over Sarah Palin's new book.

charlie - Japan   November 16th, 2009 7:21 pm ET

Help! I got a cramp!

Terri from Atlanta   November 16th, 2009 7:23 pm ET

Hulk brags, "I could lift Barack, Michelle, Sasha, and Malia all with
this one arm".

Michele Franklin-Hill, Virginia, USA   November 16th, 2009 7:26 pm ET

That's not a arm! now there, there's an arm. (imitating another famous Hogan).

Adam Newman, Romford, United Kingdom   November 16th, 2009 7:26 pm ET

Joe Biden unveils his new look.

Michele Franklin-Hill, Virginia, USA   November 16th, 2009 7:27 pm ET

"Hello............. Ohio!!!!!!" Oops I mean Australia.

Thomas Montoya   November 16th, 2009 7:29 pm ET

Hulk " Even though my left hand has been amputated and is now a nub, its still attached to this brotha"

Phil (Phoenix, Arizona)   November 16th, 2009 7:30 pm ET

Who's here for the gun show!!!

Charlotte, California   November 16th, 2009 7:32 pm ET

When your biceps are bigger than your head, then come talk to me.

Jay Obertance   November 16th, 2009 7:33 pm ET

Hulk Taunting His Wife by showing her one thing she can't get out of the divorce

Toronto, Ohio

Michele Franklin-Hill, Virginia, USA   November 16th, 2009 7:34 pm ET

Our nation's new "Rosie the Riveter" spokesperson aka "hogan the hulkster?"

Anthonia-Bay Area   November 16th, 2009 7:39 pm ET

"Argh! Now this arm is made of steel! now swine can get me!"

Michele Franklin-Hill, Virginia, USA   November 16th, 2009 7:40 pm ET

"We can do it!!!!!!!!"

BC Chicago   November 16th, 2009 7:41 pm ET

You want some of the Hulkster AC?

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 7:42 pm ET

This GUN is apart of me...it goes where I go, including Airports.

Michele Franklin-Hill, Virginia, USA   November 16th, 2009 7:44 pm ET

Rosie the Riveter (2009).

eleanor coombs, ga.   November 16th, 2009 7:44 pm ET

Check out the arm ! says Bulk Hogan!.

Seamus Murphy   November 16th, 2009 7:45 pm ET

"I'd like to see a dingo try to eat my 24 inch python, brotha! Whatcha goanna do when the Hulkamania Tour catches up with you!"

Seamus Murphy
Montreal, Quebec
Canada

Juliette Ribeiro - Orange, CA   November 16th, 2009 7:45 pm ET

"Think security can confiscate THESE guns?! HA!"

Janice Picton, ON   November 16th, 2009 7:49 pm ET

Drink a glass of whey a day and you'll have muscles like these too!

Jeannette Kucan   November 16th, 2009 7:49 pm ET

"You see these? This is what Anderson Cooper is hiding under those suits"

Jeannette Kucan
Pinehurst, NC

Craig in NorCal   November 16th, 2009 7:51 pm ET

Hearing that Austria is facing a cheese shortage, the Hulkster heads to help out.....but ends up in Australia.....

Don, Elkins Park - PA   November 16th, 2009 7:52 pm ET

I bow to no one.

justin brown   November 16th, 2009 7:52 pm ET

look the only thing my wife didn't take...my arms!

Janice Picton, ON   November 16th, 2009 7:52 pm ET

If she's a cougar, I'm a tiger!

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 7:53 pm ET

Hulk laughing as he points to the ground where he knocked out Kanye West.

Janice Picton, ON   November 16th, 2009 7:56 pm ET

"This is what happened to me after my H1N1 shot!"

Emily, Canada   November 16th, 2009 7:58 pm ET

Now living on Survivor Island, Hulk shows us how he has been surviving after losing it all in the divorce.

Idzan Ismail. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia   November 16th, 2009 7:59 pm ET

I am still top Down Under. Tyson, where are you?

Gary Thierfelder Hudson WI   November 16th, 2009 7:59 pm ET

Point and Shoot, that's what Guns are all about, baby!

Mary (Farmington Hills, MI)   November 16th, 2009 8:00 pm ET

Giving up on his right and left hemispheres, Hulk Hogan tries the southern one!

Barbara Boyd--Whites Creek, TN   November 16th, 2009 8:02 pm ET

All my power is here...there's nothing in my head.

Gayle McCauley Malden,Mass.   November 16th, 2009 8:02 pm ET

"Hey ,there's Hulk Hogan of 'Roid Wrestling Entertainment' fame!"

Ed - Sidney, OH   November 16th, 2009 8:02 pm ET

I'm gonna get a tattoo right here that say's " I LOVE ME!"

Dan D. Canandaigua.NY   November 16th, 2009 8:05 pm ET

stay in school
say your prayers
eat your vitamins
stay out of the sun and off steroids

Ed - Sidney, OH   November 16th, 2009 8:06 pm ET

This is what it looks like under my blue bonnet, I mean my manly man scarf.

Ed - Sidney, OH   November 16th, 2009 8:09 pm ET

Stuck in the 80's again

Gurmeet Hajrah, Elk Grove, CA   November 16th, 2009 8:11 pm ET

Talk to me Baby... Deisel Power baby... Thunder Down Under ... It's all about me baby...

Alina   November 16th, 2009 8:16 pm ET

Popeye doesn't have anything on me!

Dan D. Canandaigua.NY   November 16th, 2009 8:17 pm ET

is that the hulk or anderson cooper on vacation-nice guns ac

Gurmeet Hajrah, Elk Grove, CA   November 16th, 2009 8:18 pm ET

Never Say Never Again!!

Gurmeet Hajrah, Elk Grove, CA   November 16th, 2009 8:20 pm ET

I had my senior discount on Airfare baby.. I am in Outback.

Patty A Banks, Palmdale, Ca   November 16th, 2009 8:21 pm ET

Got muscle!!

Douglas Maat, Maryland   November 16th, 2009 8:30 pm ET

Hulk Hogan has another thing in mind when he hears to Beat 360.

Frank from Morehead   November 16th, 2009 8:32 pm ET

In Australia, muscles flex backwards.

david d   November 16th, 2009 8:35 pm ET

Wow, it took this much strength to get thru Sarah Palin's new book.

Anna Kate Bassett, Walnut Creek CA   November 16th, 2009 8:38 pm ET

Hulk Hogan: No one makes snuggies big enough for these guns!

david d   November 16th, 2009 8:39 pm ET

Wow, it took everything I had to rip thru the new Sarah Palin book. Tomorrow, I might actually try to read it.

Diane Williams, Oxnard, California   November 16th, 2009 8:39 pm ET

Dr. Sanjay Gupta says I am too old to get the H1N1 Flu Shot.

alex lyrics   November 16th, 2009 8:42 pm ET

The Hulk 28 inch pythons for a matchup with Jessy The Body Ventura.

Anna Kate Bassett, Walnut Creek CA   November 16th, 2009 8:45 pm ET

Hulk Hogan: You have to stare at a lot of goats to get guns this big.

Lori - PA   November 16th, 2009 8:45 pm ET

I eats me spinach!

Lori - PA   November 16th, 2009 8:46 pm ET

I never get tired of looking at my arms either.

Anna Kate Bassett, Walnut Creek CA   November 16th, 2009 8:51 pm ET

Before going to the Heene's, Hulk Hogan decides to get a tattoo of Wolf Blitzer's face on his bicep.

Walter   November 16th, 2009 8:53 pm ET

Say Hello to a real Thanksgiving Turkey

Vivien D Wolsk, NYC   November 16th, 2009 8:55 pm ET

Sarah Palin's new body guard Hulk Hogan shows off his credentials.

Vivien D, Wolsk, NYC   November 16th, 2009 9:05 pm ET

Sarah Palin's new body guard for her book tour Hulk Hogan shows off his credentials.

Stan, Canada   November 16th, 2009 9:13 pm ET

I'm the new OxiClean dude, can't you see how bright my whites are?

Lisa, Louisville, KY   November 16th, 2009 9:17 pm ET

"This arm can throw a LOT of shrimp on the barbee!"

Phil   November 16th, 2009 9:23 pm ET

I'm not worried. Put that flu shot right here.

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