Beat 360° – 08/19/09
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Two men compete during the traditional German 'Fingerhakeln' championships on August 15, 2009 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. Two opponents sit on a table and hook their middlefingers into a leather ribbon and try to pull the other one over the table. (Photo by Miguel Villagran/Getty Images)
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Senate Human Resources Department meets disaster when "Costume Day" fails to ease tensions inside the finance committee.
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Wolf Blitzer invites cnn co-workers over for games and sauerbraten
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This anthropological experiment is further proof that men have unlimited ability to make anything into a competitive sport.
Last brat!
At a recent Minnasota town-hall meeting a fight breaks out for control of the microphone.
Are you sure you aren't pulling my leg?
Rationed care, German style!
This event brings a whole new meaning to the expression, "Giving someone the finger."
Its Summer time...Circus time..!
just because it's a custom it doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid
Republican Scare Tactics: This is your finger on universal coverage.
Sorry boys, no yodeling allowed at the dinner table.
Tip German for Democrats and Republicans resolve their differences.
Wolf Blitzer invites cnn co-workers over for games and sauerbraten
Come on!! Daddy needs a new calf warmer!!
Training for dentistry and orthopaedics under the new health care plan.
Hans and Franz: The next generation.
If this next round b/w Busch and Goere results in a tie, the matter will be decided by the German supreme court.
The German alternative to same sex marriages.
Is this a stretching exercise or can I join too?
What?!?? I thought this was supposed to be a weinerschnitzel eating contest! Okay, just don't forget to catch me!!!
May the best middle finger win!
Congress agrees on fingerhakein to settle Health Care Reform
In Germany, the middle finger has a far more noble pursuit.
The one, and only, situation left when wearing lederhosen is appropriate.
Unable to reach a workable agreement on health care reform, Republican and Democrat representatives attempt an alternate solution.
Hey, watch it! That's not his finger you're pulling!
How to resolve the healthcare reform bill:
If the guy on the right wins, then the health care reform bill gets passed. If the guy on the left wins, then the bill gets scrapped.
Now will you confirm me as your friend on facsbook!
Anderson: The look on your face while interviewing Nancy Grace said it all; the insult was suggesting that you would be great to star in a movie developed from her new book. NOT. Dude, you are way too classy for that chick.
Howard
How these badasses lost the war I'll never understand.
Republican and Democat efforts to work collaboratively on health care reform have apparently failed.
Nothing says Manly like lederhosen and a ribbon!
And also believed by many to be the inspiration for Joe Biden's most recent proposal for settling health care disputes.
Bist ein "slow news day", so alles get to see occupied lederhosen, ya?
I was on my way to "Fingerhut" and discovered this "Finghrtent."
We should have signed up for the Indian Leg Wrestling instead.
Neither side wanting to give an inch on health care reform, the only solution was to make each side lock pinkies in chinese handcuffs and watch replays of The Sound of Music until one side gave in from nausea.
"Fingerhakeln"...this is tougher than having your finger on the pulse of Health Care Reform.
Kathy, Ottawa, Canada
Fingerhakein with you is like fingerhakein with a dining room table!
Man vs. Wild!
Further proof that some men will do anything for an excuse to wear lederhosen.
We're like the characters from the wizard of oz....guess which one of us needs a brain?
Two men during the German ‘Fingerhakeln’. Or would be a Democrat and a Republican?
Are you sure you haven’t gotten your wires crossed?
Oh, the things I do for a free beer!
Two men during the German ‘Fingerhakeln’.
Are you sure you haven’t gotten your wires crossed?
Lucrative pay in Germany to sat behind two men pulling each others finger...
Introducing... the new US State Department demonstration sport.
Finger what??! ??
A Democrat. A Republican. And a health care reform in the middle!
Health care reform German style.
How the Germans do Town Hall meetings.