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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Candy Crowley
Senate Human Resources Department meets disaster when "Costume Day" fails to ease tensions inside the finance committee.
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Shawn D Shaw, Los Angeles
Wolf Blitzer invites cnn co-workers over for games and sauerbraten
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Soon college students across the country with dislocated middle fingers will have Anderson Cooper to thank for the new drinking game! (just kidding Anderson)
Geesh! That looks as competitive as the Hillary-Obama primaries contest.
Maybe we could just draw straws instead!
Whoever loses is Brat Worst
Before socialized health care, these German fingerhakeln spotters would have never been possible.
Join us at the German school for disc jockeys!
*warning actual equipment not required*
Our furniture can withstand any fingerhakein you put it through! So come on down to Kaj the furniture guy today!
Leather, a strong table, and beer. Can it get any better?
So your trying to tell me the winner gets to have a free beer with president. I might have to use a straw after this match
Fingerhakeln: a new way to solve your disputes.
Tonight on UFC:
Glenn Beck vs. Barney Frank!
The German "death panel" decision method.
This Finger Ribbon pulling competition looks a lot easier than the one where the winner gets an I beat AC360 T-Shirt !!
this is what you boys get for shooting your middle finger at people on the 1st day of school!
Not the dueling finger fight. I said I was sorry for kissing your sister.
"Actung! Pull meinen finger!"
We say yes to public option! We say no to public option!
"Keep pulling, keep pulling. Oh no! Phew! Who at the beans?
Yet another push for bipartisan unity ends with screaming and middle fingers.
In America we like to hide our problems under the table, not so easy to do in Germany !
The origination of the "pull my finger" farting game. WHO HAS THE FART SPRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Craig Monette
Paragould, Arkansas
KEEP YOUR DAMN GOVERNMENT HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE!!
Middle fingers put in a good use.
"Hey, pull my finger" is just an old American joke!!!!!!!!
eh snikenkiehmer wish ya wienashnishel zsha!
Hey, that's my lederhosen ribbon. Give it back.
"If that thumb strap breaks, you buy the first beer, ya?"
Nein,Your going to take your shots and your gonna like it!
Germans showing to President Obama how to survive the Obama's Waterloo.
Gives new meaning to the phrase "pull my finger."
Now, if you'd just hold still, boys, the moyle will be here any moment.
– Juliann Budimir, Los Angeles
OH NO!!! I LEFT THE BABY IN THE CAR!!!!!
We have no problems with this as long as they only hook their "middle fingers" and not their (let imagination mind go wild with this one) ... Yes to same sex Fingerhakeln.
Another trust exercise gone terribly wrong.
No politics, just rules. Leather straps 10cm long, a table 79 cm high, 74 cm wide and 109 cm long, stools 40 by 40 cm, 48 cm high. PULL MY FINGER.
Crystal
Escanba MI
The kings men gather around Humpty Dumpty before his great fall.
Gentleman, OK,gehen lassen ... Es ist nur eine US-Dollar
Gentleman, OK,let go... it's is only an American dollar.
Germany new law reform to giving a motorist the middle finger. If They Stick it Up.... You Pull It Out Law.
Wall Street CEOs battle over the Federal government's "Billionaire Bailout Bonus" giveaway program.
–Christopher C. Odom, Nashville, Tennessee
The Germans give the finger to preexisting conditions.
Good thing it’s not a Scottish event.
Talk about Celtic Bird enhancement!
German demonstrating how to make a quiet Town Hall.
Good thing it's not a Scottish event.
Talk about Celtic Bird enhancement!
Co contestants wait to be tagged in this now defunct German sport.
Sadly the the german version of the UFC fell flat on its face when contestants doned lederhosen instead of unitards and the octagon was
littered with kitchen furniture and frilly blue and white crepe.
TRUST Seminar – Fall back and I will catch you....really
We shouldn't have volunteered to test Cheney's new interrogation method!
– Juliann Budimir, Los Angeles
Go ahead, pull my finger.
Sarah Palin's interpretation of a "Death Panel"
"pull my finger" has never been so well received
"Whoever wins gets a free AK 47 to carry to the next healthcare protest"