As a young child...
...most comedy is either cartoon or slapstick based. This obviously includes the classic 'stepping on a rake' gag.

I must have been around 6 or 7 and was alone in the garden. There was also a rake on the ground. Now I wasn't a stupid child, I knew I didn't want to be cracked in the face by a metal pole, but I still wanted to test this theory.

I figured that if I trod on it lightly I could control it's rise and stop it short of my face. Of course, it didn't pan out as I had planned and upon standing on the rake, managed to thrust the metal pole, directly onto my forehead, perfectly between my eyes. Messrs Hanna and Barbera would have been pround. I was down like a lead balloon and cried excessively.

Length? From the ground to my head in half a second.
(Martin1337 was trying and failing to be funny at, Sun 27 Jul 2008, 0:46, 4 replies)

High Five...
I had exactly the same experience when I were a lad. My unlucky spirit brother, I salute you.
(jabboy, Sun 27 Jul 2008, 1:03, closed)

I am so glad
That I am not alone in having done this.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sun 27 Jul 2008, 13:16, closed)

I did this as well
but fortunately I held my arm out in front of me, so it smacked my forearm rather than my face.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sun 27 Jul 2008, 15:01, closed)

*click*
I did the exact same thing!

With one slight difference...

I did it last weekend.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 11:26, closed)