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.
UPDATE: Check out our Beat 360° Winners!
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You jump first.
No no no you jump first.
Ok Dear! I really thought Our rooms were POSH. Sorry, Sweety.
"From what I can see, it is definitely a slow news day."
Is it a bird ... a plane? No, it's just Obama.
Julie T, Torrance CA
Hey look Sarah is the 'Newt' GOP beacon!
With global warming endangering so many large animals stuffing and mounting small animals is getting more popular.
Hey, is Meerkat Manor on tonight? It reminds me of how good we've got it.
MY first concert?? Captain & Tenille . . . "Muskrat Love" was my fave. You?
Pardon me, but do you have any grey poupon?
So, people are saying they like my silver hair better than the old Flock of Seagulls look. What do YOU think?
Dude – I told you skipper and his band of penguins will get us marooned... again.
I'm ready Thelma , how about you Louise ??? On three......
The meerkats didn't see their shadow - they predict that Obama's hair will go gray even faster!
This is odd. I guess we are not in Kansas anymore.
I told them we needed weapons to fight off these pirates! Now what are we supposed to do?!
Stowing away in the hull of the Titanic was the best idea you've ever had! America here we come!
Former Senator Ted Stevens' pet meerkats emerge after cleaning the internet tubes to Alaska.
G'day world!
A Meerkat fight.
'Don't blame me – I thought you ordered Digital."
Cameron Cox
Winnipeg, Canada
The meerkats followed Biden's advice to stay indoors to avoid swine flu, and they finally emerge after the epidemic is over!
We are already in a ark in case that next big Flood is coming.
Once again, Mr. Steele: No, we won't lead the RNC. We're meerkats, not Newts!
Land Ahoy
Sweet! This is WAY better than that Meerkat Manor place!
Kristen
Chicago, IL
" I don't care if you love Letterman...quit laughing or Palin will shoot us both!!"
Noah provides transportation for the few who might sail in the current economy.
Pst.. pst.. Agent B, be as sly as you can, do not seek any attention from Kim Jong Eel! Once you get close to him, gimme a signal, I'll "Chk Chk Boom!!" him. Roger.
They weren't kidding when they said TV's need the converter box
Now back to Meerkat Late Night Live.
It's do or die for the meerkats tonight.....they have to find a digital converter!
" What???? We missed National Donut Day????"
" Von Voyage everone!"
["Mission Impossible" music in background]
Agent Joe .... did you find anything on Sotomayor yet?
Not yet Agent Boe ... I am still looking. Let's get back to work.
The meerkats come out to meet the new Miss California
So much for my Maybelline smudgeproof eyeliner.
Yukon Territory Canada
1st Meercat: What was that?
2nd Meercat: I dont know, but we better get these drugs under the border before the boss finds out.
Foreclosure ain`t touching us!
Two svelte hopefuls audition to fill the recent Miss California USA vacancy.
Two meerkats –posing as Jo Anne Worley and Goldie Hawn-on the Laugh In show - popping out their heads and asking out of the wall "Is that another chicken joke?". Laughter
erupts
Cindy
Riverview, Mi
"Uh oh, I'm guessing we somehow ended up in Alaska via a tunnel to nowhere!"
What are you in for?
Meerkat burglary.
Cameron Cox
Winnipeg, Canada
We must have taken a wrong turn at Alberkerkie!
Bill Shields
Waynesboro, VA
Do you like my new color? It's Clairol's Anderson Cooper 2005.
What? Are our expences getting through the roof? Are they begging us to turn the heat down ?
In the tiptoe we can watch what was the David Gergen ’s first concert!!
The second and third runner-up to Miss California eagerly
watch and wait for the Donald's call.
Meerkat on right: "Time to crawl back in the hole – here comes that guy from TMZ!"
I think we should've booked the stateroom.
What? No TiVo? I'm talking to my agent...
Taronga Western Plains Zoo provides a photo to show CNN vewiers that these animals arent mere-cats but infact stars.
"YEA! FINALLY, we found the White House Situation Room. Bet I can
beat you to the donuts and M & M's!"