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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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I thought I'd be impressing a lass... not 'falling' into some guy with calf socks!!
Who knew Chiropractic adjustments could be so cheap?!
Wonder which type of health care plan the loser will use?
Fritz, your middle finger ist strong - Jah? Nein Helmut – just long :-))!
obama bends over backwards for healthcare....what's this guy's reason?!
Harvard once again loses to MIT.
This is the most painful and hopefully least smelly depiction of "pull my finger" I've ever seen.
Obviously Michelle Obama models shorts much better than we do.
L'eggo my Eggo!
In the immortal thoughts of Jackson's son as Michael held him out from the balcony, "Hold on!"
I watched Fingerhakeln at the Octoberfest in Munich and all I brought back was my dignity.
DUDEEEEEEEE, WHAT D YOU EAT????? cause the whole pull my finger thing see
Nein Mine!
"Hans!" "Yes, Franz?" "Keep pulling, Hans!!! If we win, our ribbon will be tied around Mrs. Obama's waist! Her shorts need adornment!"
Yes, Gurt, everybody else sees you as a winner too. No, really.
DUUUUDEEEEEE, WHAT'D YOU EAT?
So, the root of the word WANKER is German?
Good Heavens if Obama were here we would atleast be drinking beer!
Move along, folks, nothing gay to see here.
After several years of participation in the sport, Cyrano de Bergerac finally became capable of scratching one particularly annoying itch.
No one expected town hall rallies to revert to such childish displays, and the losers were sent to their rooms with no filibustering.
Republicans voting on Healthcare Reform.
" Are you sure this is what we have to do to get on "America's Got Talent?"
Ironically, the winner feasts on jerky.
Look, as average German men attempt to creatively explain to the public how in America the tax payers are always there to catch their bickering and grappling politicians whenever they fall.
Earlier, if someone had claimed such a sport existed I would have said it was kind of a stretch.
"Germans get fingers stuck in Chinese finger trap."
I wish the source of my own stress was this easy to identify.
German Unions make workers use only one finger.
Even as children, Keith Olbermann and Rush Limbaugh just didn't get along.
Competitors train for this event by flipping each other off.
If we added a couple of strapping young lasses, would that make a quorum?
"aaahhh.... now i see why congress cant seems to make a decision on healthy care reform because they are busy competing with the rest of the world @ the ‘Fingerhakeln’ championship in germany"
The sport reenacts that seminal day when a German Democrat first decided to take control of the entire world, beginning with a tiny leather strap, and a nearby German Republican stepped in and refused to let him do it.
Winner gets to wear long pants
This is how the Germans preform surgery.
Monticello, Minnesota
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The "pull my finger joke" has come to Germany. They don't know whats coming next.
Germans playfully mimicking the liberals and conservatives of the American congress.
"Now THIS is the right way to use a dining room table!"
Just another typical day as the German legislative branch debates health care.
Pssst, Hanz! Tell Gunther his shoe is untied.
Kind of sums up Congress's views on America.
The Germans, unlike Barney Frank, have found the proper use for a dining room table.
No! man that's not the way you play thisgame. musical chair!
"This is NOT what I had in mind when they said we would be demonstrating the American political system!"
Common guys! I said public option off the table, not your finger!
Tested here in germany...another controversial CIA interrogation technique.
Finger Splittin' good times!
Don't be a hater hosen.
Finger Splittin' Good!