Category Archives: ~Chuckle Control

Garbage is Garbage…Sometimes

Most would agree that minimizing air pollution is a good thing and in the San Francisco Bay are, where we used to live, Spare the Air Day is a big deal. But not many people realize the need for that same type of attention toward other aspects of life, that rhyme with air, and that why I’m involved with Chuckle Control.


People expect things to perform as they desire and often react negatively toward a piece of furniture or an appliance that doesn’t meet their standards. Perhaps that’s why I became upset when the seat I was using on our outdoor patio wobbled and suddenly collapsed, sending me to the ground.

It was my intention to haul that piece of trash out to the garbage but my wife, realizing what I was planning on doing, gently got my attention. “Honey,” she said, “We can’t throw that away. We need to have it repaired and continue using it for seating…it’s a Spare the Chair Day.”

Up to Something Else Funny?

Married and Harried

Today’s installment in my Chuckle Control category needs a little explanation.  When I wrote the first one, while living in Northern California, the jokes came about as a sort of push back on the repeated climate control related weather warnings we experienced.  I figured, there had to be something funny about the situation and the series was born.

Well now we’ve moved to a small town in Eastern Washington and don’t hear as much about air quality as we did in the San Francisco Bay Area.  But as our new state has it’s own air monitoring service and since I don’t want to stop writing the jokes, I’m going to keep shooting them into the air.

This newly wedded couple returned from their honeymoon to their small home in Spokane, prepared and enjoyed  a delicious dinner, then headed straight to the bedroom and ended up delightfully asleep in each other’s arms.  In what seemed like just moments, they woke to face their first work day as Mr. & Mrs.  She finished her shower and was grabbing a brush and blow dryer just as he walked in with the first bad news of their marriage.  “Honey, you’re going to have to let those beautiful tresses air dry today because I just heard it’s a Spare the Hair day.

Foo Foo on You Too

Today we add another genre of humor to our site; punny looks at climate control warnings, which are commonly referred to as Spare the Air days.  Pollution in the atmosphere is common throughout the world and in Northern California we even have a website dedicated to the condition.  With today’s joke, we take the greenhouse effect to a whole new level.

Little Bunny Foo Foo

While vacationing in San Francisco with family, this couple from Germany decides to pick up some wild game for a special meal of Hasenpfeffer.  They head to the Ferry Building but when they arrive at the Golden Gate Meat Company, disappointment fills their hearts as they read the chalk board notice: Sorry, we don’t have any fresh rabbit, it’s a Spare the Hare day.