Beat 360° 6/11/09
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:
Two meerkats (Suricata suricatta) emerge from a tunnel leading to their heated burrow at the Taronga Western Plains Zoo. (Photo credit: Talara BLACKWOOD/AFP/Getty Images)
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.
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'"Remember my shaky friend, don't be a hero, just grab the nuts and through the open door – then Matt Lauer picks us up at the airport. In 3 days we'll be sunning ourselves on the African plains.
I swear it doesn't matter whether we can sing or act, if your cute and you are a twin, Disney will hire you!
"Australia's Qantas airlines proudly shows off their new air-conditioned window seating upgrades!"
Beth Isbell
Oklahoma City, OK
I hear the bear is a real snob now since his trampoline debut on utube
Is this the Rowan and Martin show?
Is it me or do we just look like we're angry?
Drop your ears – that should help.
"We can get a whole bag of nuts if we tell the AC360 gang we knew Rick Strandolf when we were living in an Academy tree!"
Tom Satre
Naples, FL
Meerkat Laugh-In....
"Say Goodnight Dick" "Good night Dick"
Joe, do you ever have one of those days where you just don't want to come outside?
cruises are so cheap nowadays even the meerkat reality show is going
Meercats Palin and Letterman debate the benefits of belting out Hakuna Matata.
Is the fact that we were sent to the Hubble Telescope a mere coincidence?
WOW , they act like we never come out!
With the Home Foreclosures going at ease, Meerkat Manor Stars from Animal Planet purchased a New Luxury home with heated Burrows.
President Obama!
What a wonderful phrase
President Obama!
Ain't no passing craze
It means no worries
For the rest of your days
It's our problem-free philosophy
President Obama!
...I thought the screaming monkeys were bad.... The New York State Senate protesters have them beat....
"Hey Dick..."
"Yeah George?"
"You sure we should be taking a cruise during the swine flu pandemic?"
...
I say we go back inside before Letterman cracks a joke about us that would needlessly clog the news cycle.
No wonder the North Korean's are having difficulty with their missile program...
Did you hear the pandemic level is raised to phase 6??? Well.... I'm not going out there!!!!
Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi on sentry duty while the rest of the mob forages for pork.
Tim Gibson
San Diego, CA
I bet if Jim Croce hung out with us, he would have sang "If I could spend time in a brothel".
Did you hear that Tom and Kaite's daugher's middle name is Cata?
Oh oh, we are definitely not in Kansas anymore.
The first meerkats in space peer down on Earth, millennia after the global financial crisis crushed mankind under insurmountable debt.
It seems a bit confusing that this photo was released in conjunction with the proposed universal health plan.
Members of the prior administration cannot help but pop-out and offer comments.
Look at all those humans forage for those digital converter boxes!
Bush and Cheney checking out their new digs after the election.
When you said you had something hairy and sweaty to show me, I didn't realize you were only taking me inside!
"Signing up for Meerkat Manor: DC was the best idea EVER!!"
Maersk Line's latest anti-piracy measures – trained meerkats stand at the ready.
Sheila Moorehead
USA
Please, please look at the horizon, I don't want to be covered in your dinner.
Dude... no more beans for you... now these people are going to think I am pissed when I was simply holding my breath! The look of disgust on my face is more then apparent.
"So, if we see our shadows, it's six more weeks of winter, or . . . ?
Hector... you really want me to say "Yo Queirdo Taco Bell"?
Two formerly bald meekrats flaunt their new "flock of seagulls" wig inspired by Anderson Cooper.
It's okay to come out... Cheney may be here as well as being locked and loaded, but he is going after the other white meat... the two legged kind!
I can do anything you can do better, I can do anything better then you...
No you can't
Yes I can
No you can't
Global warming has either inspired these two meerrats to advocate an eco-friendly environment or become next top 2010 running mates representing the GOP.
Having mortgage woes, you humans?!!!!!!!!
6/11 beat 360 caption:
Now here's Erika with tonight's bulletin.
Anthony Coppola
294 Cascade Place
Rochester NY 14609
Let us know when all the hate, wars and economic mess is over and we'll come out!
Is it dinner, yet Mr. Zoo person?
It's cold in this so-called plains!
We're still bummed about Flower.
Two meerkats accidentally are seen in their secret hotel rooms on the set of Meerkat Manor.
1. Wow things don't look much better from this end.
2. Hey Timone what do they call those scary animals behind the glass?
So this is the 'light at the end of the tunnel' ... boy were we shafted!
Is it safe to come out, dear?