July 10, 2003

Suggest a Caption

Posted by Kieran

For this.

Posted on July 10, 2003 05:57 PM UTC
Comments

See this… and more! Come to the red light district!

Posted by Jeffrey · July 10, 2003 05:59 PM

Who has the SPF 50?

Posted by SageOne · July 10, 2003 06:18 PM

Local Meerkat prepares warm nuts for the winter.

Posted by JNelsonW · July 10, 2003 06:20 PM

Pentagon discovers fiendish plot to hide WMDs inside meerkat

Posted by Alan · July 10, 2003 06:25 PM

“Yeah, I got your beautiful Australian weather right here, buddy!”

Posted by Scott Martens · July 10, 2003 06:27 PM

…and Papa Meerkat assured his wife that their next son would be served by a better mohel.

Posted by Seth Gordon · July 10, 2003 06:28 PM

“Ai, ai, ai, ai, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive.” (…with a little meerkat booty boogie)

Posted by Keith M Ellis · July 10, 2003 06:29 PM

“We never use heat lamps at McMeerkat, where we don’t cook it ‘til you order it!”

Alternative: “I’m ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMeer.”

Posted by Alan Schussman · July 10, 2003 06:50 PM

“No, no, see, she hit me first, officer. I was just sittin’ there, mindin’ my own, y’know, business, and she comes up behind me an’…what? Yeah, I’m drunk, so what? Crazy bitch gets to hit me on the head just ‘cause I’m drunk? Damn!”

Posted by st · July 10, 2003 07:12 PM

I am the Lizard King! I can do ANYTHING!!!!

Posted by Patrick Taylor · July 10, 2003 08:01 PM

Alan Schussman beat me to my first choice (“I’m ready for my close-up…”), so I’ll suggest:

“I’m too sexy for this fur…I do my little walk on the (meer)kat-walk”

Posted by chuck · July 10, 2003 08:44 PM

Ma’am please, I know what you’ve heard, but modesty forbids.

Posted by ogged · July 10, 2003 09:10 PM

Celebrity I resemble most: Chewbacca

Posted by Libertine · July 10, 2003 10:10 PM

“I thought there was supposed to be PRIVACY in these nude tanning salons.”

Posted by Keith M Ellis · July 10, 2003 10:11 PM

“I’ve written the directions to the uranium cache here on my abdomen, in ink that only shows up under red light-… Oh, rats! Damn that social grooming!”

Posted by Kevin Wenzel · July 10, 2003 10:50 PM

“Yeah? Well, don’t let the door hit ya on the way out! And make sure it’s shut this time!”

Or

“Nothin like warm toasty fur down below, eh Fred?”

Posted by Jon Gallagher · July 10, 2003 10:50 PM

“Mr. Attorney-General, I know nothing of any terrorist plot to collapse the Pentagon by burrowing underneath it.”

Posted by Max Sawicky · July 10, 2003 11:28 PM

“A meerkat warms itself under the glow of a heat lamp in its enclosure at Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Thursday July 3, 2003. Weather officials say Sydney experienced its coldest maximum temperature in seven years, reaching 12 degrees Celcius (54 degrees Fahrenheit), prompting zoo keepers to activate the lamps to help warm the meerkats native to Angola, Namibia, South Africa and Southern Botswana.”

Oh shit, that was already taken.

Posted by Norbizness · July 10, 2003 11:41 PM

“I keep telling you, I’m not the three of clubs!”

Posted by Iain Murray · July 11, 2003 02:09 AM

“What’re you looking at, bub?”

MKK

Posted by Mary Kay · July 11, 2003 02:37 AM

“Don’t Judge Me.”

Posted by Charles · July 11, 2003 04:17 AM

Henry was often the first to arrive at the Yellowstone Disco.

Posted by Jimmy · July 11, 2003 04:21 AM

I think red is my color, don’t you?

Posted by Rick B · July 11, 2003 06:06 AM

What, no “Lion King” references? Okay then…

“You don’t know what you’re missing, Pumbaa. This stuff rocks!”

Posted by Alan K. Henderson · July 11, 2003 07:45 AM

Marina Kelinova, 25, poses outside the recently reopened Chernobyl branch of The Tanning Centre.

Posted by dsquared · July 11, 2003 09:48 AM

I’m too sexy for my hat, too sexy for my shirt, too sexy!!!

Posted by Kija · July 11, 2003 09:36 PM

(Yeah, I’ll take that Lion King challenge.)
“Timon’s career having entered a downward spiral, it was not long before he found himself performing in ‘Serengeti Nasties’.”

Or:
“Exhibit ‘A’ in the case of The Crown v. David Attenborough

Posted by Jurjen · July 14, 2003 11:14 AM

Some days Kieran regrets leaving academia and assuming the form and simple lifestyle of a captive meerkat. But not today.

Posted by Keith M Ellis · July 14, 2003 05:33 PM

(Oh, wait. You’re an EU lobbyist or somesuch, aren’t you? Damn, that would have messed up my caption, since, really, what’s the difference?)

Posted by Keith M Ellis · July 14, 2003 05:35 PM

“So, didja hear the joke about the Finns in the sauna?”

Posted by Rayne · July 14, 2003 06:11 PM

Oh, wait. You’re an EU lobbyist or somesuch, aren’t you?

No, that’s Maria.

Posted by Kieran Healy · July 15, 2003 12:40 AM
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