What Is Your Best "Cartoon Moment"

[jpbruni]

My sons were talking about this and it was hilarious! What happened to you that would be something you would see in a cartoon?

Here's mine and then I will share my Brother in Laws that blows mine away

When I was 12 I was in the Boy Scouts and we went on a canoe trip in E. TX. We were done for the day and unloading at the dock. My Scoutmaster (who I really didn't know that well) was my canoe buddy. He stood up to put his gear on the dock. I stood up, he lost his balance, then I lost my balance and we stood there and wobbled and teetered for what seemed like a minute, trying to get our balance...and then he fell in the lake

I was trying REALLY hard not to laugh, as he DID NOT. The water was cold and he was in full scoutmaster dress. The look on his face was priceless.

One more...My BIL was working in his shop. He did the classic cartoon move and stepped on a rake. It did not hit him in the face, as expected; but hit him in the hand instead. Not good, because he was in the process of dialing his brand new Blackberry. It knocked the phone out of his hand, the phone flew 10 feet in the air across the garage and landed dead-center perfect in a jar of paint thinner!!

He said it looked exactly like something in a cartoon!

OK, your turn

J.P.

[Deathrow Jethro]

I was probably around 10 years old, my cousin and i were out walking in the flooded bottoms of my grandparents lease... We were in about a foot of murky water when all of a sudden my next step had no bottom... My cousin immediately busted out laughing... I was flailing around like a flounder out of water, trying to get my wits and footing... I finally got out of the cold, murky, monster infested water and almost froze to death walking back to camp to put on dry, warm clothes...

[47]

When my kids were younger(and I was much dumber), we had a trampoline in the back yard...big one.

One day I was on the roof of my shop, had been trimming away branches, and when I finished I looked down saw the trampoline and thought, "hmm...this could work"

Had my wife and Sons drag it a little closer, all the while my wife whining something like "hooonnneeey...you have a ladder right there" in the usual concerned tone, and my Sons giggling and encouraging me with "go for it Dad!".

What happened after I jumped, was nowhere near what I had pictured in my mind while standing on the edge of the roof...

The plan was to just jump out a little, roll backward, tuck the knees and land sorta like you would if you were doing a cannon ball into a pool.

Well, the execution of the cannon ball was flawless... over shot the landing by only about a foot and a half forward.

This is where I was reminded of the Law of Physics which states, "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Having hit the tramp with forward momentum AND overshooting the center, I remember hearing the sounds of the springs stretch to capacity, then being hurled backward and upward...(mostly backward) at a much higher rate of speed than anticipated.

As soon as I realized I was now upside down, my little cannon ball tuck began to unravel just about the time I remembered there was the wall of a 20x30 building in my immediate future.... I hit the wall in about the same manner as a bug hitting a windshield, head about 7:00 oclock, one foot, 12:00 and the other about 3:00.

I can even hear the gasp of horror from the wife, and the asthma inducing laughter from my kids over the loud BLAM!! I made upon impact.

As I lay there wondering which way was up...I remembered one of Danny Glovers lines from Lethal Weapon...

"I'm get'n too old for this *$@!"

[HandiKap Bowhunter]

OMG CutTheLoop. I am in tears. I aint got anything coming to mind that would even closely beat that. VIDEO would be priceless!!!!

[bownutone]

When my kids were younger(and I was much dumber), we had a trampoline in the back yard...big one.

One day I was on the roof of my shop, had been trimming away branches, and when I finished I looked down saw the trampoline and thought, "hmm...this could work"

Had my wife and Sons drag it a little closer, all the while my wife whining something like "hooonnneeey...you have a ladder right there" in the usual concerned tone, and my Sons giggling and encouraging me with "go for it Dad!".

What happened after I jumped, was nowhere near what I had pictured in my mind while standing on the edge of the roof...

The plan was to just jump out a little, roll backward, tuck the knees and land sorta like you would if you were doing a cannon ball into a pool.

Well, the execution of the cannon ball was flawless... over shot the landing by only about a foot and a half forward.

This is where I was reminded of the Law of Physics which states, "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Having hit the tramp with forward momentum AND overshooting the center, I remember hearing the sounds of the springs stretch to capacity, then being hurled backward and upward...(mostly backward) at a much higher rate of speed than anticipated.

As soon as I realized I was now upside down, my little cannon ball tuck began to unravel just about the time I remembered there was the wall of a 20x30 building in my immediate future.... I hit the wall in about the same manner as a bug hitting a windshield, head about 7:00 oclock, one foot, 12:00 and the other about 3:00.

I can even hear the gasp of horror from the wife, and the asthma inducing laughter from my kids over the loud BLAM!! I made upon impact.

As I lay there wondering which way was up...I remembered one of Danny Glovers lines from Lethal Weapon...

"I'm get'n too old for this *$@!"

Thats funny right there

[Redneck Archer]

cut the loop.

that is great.

wish I could have been there with a cold beer for ya when you regained your senses. I would have been laughing so **** hard.

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cut the loop.

that is great.

wish I could have been there with a cold beer for ya when you regained your senses. I would have been laughing so **** hard.

Oh...it's funny, now

Was definitely a "hold my beer, and watch this" moment.

[xman59]

buddy and i where fishiing dam b, went up a little channel that dead ended against a little locked in pond area,, we know theres plenty of gators and snakes but neither of us are overly afraid, so we start walking along the trickle of water going back about 50 yards, we both catch a bass on the first cast in the pond, about that time we hear a gator bellow, or whatever you want to call that sound... we stop look around the area and dont see one close,, we start opposite ways around the pond and both catch a couple more fish real quick,, well the gator cuts loose again, this time we look at each other and both said, that sounds a lot closer... we look see nothing and make casts, before either bait hits the water it sounded like that gator was between us,, we look at each other and take off for the boat as fast as we can run,, both of us trailing baits holding rods over our heads and trying to real on the run.. through matted vegitation that feels like a sponge,, i weighed about 220 at the time and he was closer to 300 than 280... we get to this little willow tree about half way to the boat and both think were going to climb it... the tree wasn't big enough to get either of us off the ground let alone up it!
we look at each other again and sprint for the boat again,,, well we thought we were sprinting,, but two fat boys dont sprint anywhere! it was more like a real fast waddle,, and tring to high step that mush and weed mat!!
we got back to the boat caught our breath and busted out laughing, knowing how silly we must have looked... but we did stay in the boat the rest of the day!!!

[Deathrow Jethro]

when my kids were younger(and i was much dumber), we had a trampoline in the back yard...big one.

One day i was on the roof of my shop, had been trimming away branches, and when i finished i looked down saw the trampoline and thought, "hmm...this could work"

had my wife and sons drag it a little closer, all the while my wife whining something like "hooonnneeey...you have a ladder right there" in the usual concerned tone, and my sons giggling and encouraging me with "go for it dad!".

What happened after i jumped, was nowhere near what i had pictured in my mind while standing on the edge of the roof...

The plan was to just jump out a little, roll backward, tuck the knees and land sorta like you would if you were doing a cannon ball into a pool.

Well, the execution of the cannon ball was flawless... Over shot the landing by only about a foot and a half forward.

This is where i was reminded of the law of physics which states, "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Having hit the tramp with forward momentum and overshooting the center, i remember hearing the sounds of the springs stretch to capacity, then being hurled backward and upward...(mostly backward) at a much higher rate of speed than anticipated.

As soon as i realized i was now upside down, my little cannon ball tuck began to unravel just about the time i remembered there was the wall of a 20x30 building in my immediate future.... I hit the wall in about the same manner as a bug hitting a windshield, head about 7:00 oclock, one foot, 12:00 and the other about 3:00.

I can even hear the gasp of horror from the wife, and the asthma inducing laughter from my kids over the loud blam!! I made upon impact.

As i lay there wondering which way was up...i remembered one of danny glovers lines from lethal weapon...

"i'm get'n too old for this *$@!"

sooo wish there was video of this...

[47]

The God Father

[deercrazy]

I was in high school and I was walking through my parents garage and was stepping around something and all the sudden whack. Yep I stepped on a rack. I was kind of leaning forward when it happened so it popped me on the eye brow. Busted me wide open. I stumbled to be back yard were we had big glass back door. My mom and sisters were in the living room watching me, thinking I was clowning around. I stumbled over to the door and put my blood covered hand on it to get my wits back, and they went historical screaming. They had no clue what happened, and when they saw the blood the freaked out. I cant help from laughing when I think about it. Lmbo

[Johnny]

Good stuff CutTheLoop. You had me crying over here!

I have one moment that comes to mind that sticks out like a soar thumb.

I live on 13 acres so their is a lot of outside clean up to be had when winter turns into spring. About 4 years ago the wife and I were outside raking on a little hill right beside our house where we had ourselves a pretty good fire going. On top of this hill was a very big picnic table with built in bench rows on both sides made out of treated lumber and this son of a gun weighed a ton. We had it for awhile and the top of it was pretty wharped. I got to looking at it while raking and figured it needed to go.

The fire we had going was about 15 feet away from the picnic table and I figured I could flip it 2 or 3 times until it flipped on top of the fire. The only problem was it was one heavy son of a gun, not your ordinary picnic table. I thought back to how I got it up on this little hill when it took me and 4 other guys who struggled to get it to where it was. Well, being the manly man I like to think I am, I figured I would lift it up by one side of the bench row so off I go. I grabbed underneath the bench and struggled like heck to get the bench over my head. I finally got it straight up to give it its first flip.

So here I am with the table standing on its side with my son and wife looking on. As I'm pushing it over, I put my feet on the other bench row near the ground thinking I was heavy enough to break the fall....BAD mistake. The next think I know I am staring up at the sky and I am way up in the air with barely enough time to say OH SH#@!! The next thing I know I am hitting the ground with so much force that I broke a couple of pine saplings along the way somehow. I landed on my left side and back shoulder area. My feet actually came back over my head and hit the ground behind me. All I heard was cracking in my body when I violently hit the ground and then I hear my wife screaming.

I laid there for a moment trying to collect my thoughts and was actually a bit hesitant to move. When I did and the wife saw that I was alive, she just busted out laughing with tears running down her face as did my son. She said she had to look up at me way up in the air, at least 10 feet or so. I'm glad they got a real big kick out of it because I sure the heck didn't. I got up and knew I was going to feel this the next day and beyond. I ended up cracking a few ribs on my left side and couldn't sleep good for over a month!

Well the story got around to my dad and since we are pollacks, he has been calling me Peter Panski ever since.

[tbeak]

I was on a softball team with some buddies of mine one year. we played over at PJ's in Spring. I havent played any kind of ball in some time but i really enjoy it. well I'm on first and my buddy drills one to the outfield. im hooking it around second and the outfielder is throwing to third. If any of you know PJ's, you know they dont have the softest or smoothest dirt, not the professional quailty we require for such skilled players . Well im probably 10 feet or so off third and took the head first dive. my entire body slid maybe 4 feet. if it wasnt for my face plowing a channel in the clay and my feet literaly touching the back of my head i may have made it. when all the dust cleared i was still about 2 feet from the base. haha the third baseman walked to me and just touched me. i look over and the entire dugout is rolling and my fiance is almost falling off the stands laughing.

[HandiKap Bowhunter]

My Wife just reminded me of my DUMB ARSE Moment

Picture this. I go home for a weekend just 2 weeks before my wedding. Im 22 at the time. My mother tells me the dogs are just going nuts everynight and cant figure out what is going on so I go do some looking around and finally figure it out.

In a tree between the house and the kennels a HUGE coon has decided to make it its home. I wanted to give it a chance to move on so I didnt want to just shoot it.

So I do some looking around and stumble onto a piece of 1 1/2 pvc 20 ft section I had extra from running some pipe at the barns. I proceed to poking this coon trying to annoy him into finding another place to rest. Well he starts down the other side of the tree then changes his mind, and heads back up.

Well that just annoyed me so I started poking him real hard hoping to knock him off the little limb he was on. He just moved up a little higher and was getting mad. So now he is out of my reach and IM PI$$ED. SO I being in better shape proceed to jump as high as I can and poke him again. Well the 3rd time I did he managed to bite/grap the pipe just enough it slipped out of my hand.

Thats when it hit me. No not the oh crap thought I mean the pipe. I looked up wondering what happened and there comes the pvc. It hits me on the right side of my nose and right eye and hit me hard enough I saw stars and got knocked down. YES SIR just a lil over a week to the wedding and I have a cut on the bridge of my nose and a black eye. The Wife didnt see the humor and luckly I didnt have it the day I said I DO

Raccoon was not so lucky. When I got my wits about me I went in the house and grabbed my 22 semi. He got hit 11 times from the inital shot to the time he hit the ground.

[47]

Good stuff CutTheLoop. You had me crying over here!

I have one moment that comes to mind that sticks out like a soar thumb.

I live on 13 acres so their is a lot of outside clean up to be had when winter turns into spring. About 4 years ago the wife and I were outside raking on a little hill right beside our house where we had ourselves a pretty good fire going. On top of this hill was a very big picnic table with built in bench rows on both sides made out of treated lumber and this son of a gun weighed a ton. We had it for awhile and the top of it was pretty wharped. I got to looking at it while raking and figured it needed to go.

The fire we had going was about 15 feet away from the picnic table and I figured I could flip it 2 or 3 times until it flipped on top of the fire. The only problem was it was one heavy son of a gun, not your ordinary picnic table. I thought back to how I got it up on this little hill when it took me and 4 other guys who struggled to get it to where it was. Well, being the manly man I like to think I am, I figured I would lift it up by one side of the bench row so off I go. I grabbed underneath the bench and struggled like heck to get the bench over my head. I finally got it straight up to give it its first flip.

So here I am with the table standing on its side with my son and wife looking on. As I'm pushing it over, I put my feet on the other bench row near the ground thinking I was heavy enough to break the fall....BAD mistake. The next think I know I am staring up at the sky and I am way up in the air with barely enough time to say OH SH#@!! The next thing I know I am hitting the ground with so much force that I broke a couple of pine saplings along the way somehow. I landed on my left side and back shoulder area. My feet actually came back over my head and hit the ground behind me. All I heard was cracking in my body when I violently hit the ground and then I hear my wife screaming.

I laid there for a moment trying to collect my thoughts and was actually a bit hesitant to move. When I did and the wife saw that I was alive, she just busted out laughing with tears running down her face as did my son. She said she had to look up at me way up in the air, at least 10 feet or so. I'm glad they got a real big kick out of it because I sure the heck didn't. I got up and knew I was going to feel this the next day and beyond. I ended up cracking a few ribs on my right side and couldn't sleep good for over a month!

Well the story got around to my dad and since we are pollacks, he has been calling me Peter Panski ever since.

Catapult

Is it any wonder how our wives out live us?