“What’s the difference between a bonus and a penis?” (joke)

A popular off-color joke about an employee bonus is:
 
Q: What’s the difference between a bonus and a penis?
A: Your wife will blow your bonus!
 
The joke was posted to the newsgroup eunet.jokes on April 23, 1990 and has been printed on many images.
 
 
Google Groups: eunet.jokes
bonus
Terry MacSweeney
4/23/90
I thought a joke was appropriate in eunet.jokes as it has turned into a crappy newsgroup.
 
Anyway here’s the joke: (a smidge sexist)
Q. What’s the difference between a bonus and a penis ?
A. Your wife will blow your bonus!
     
Google Groups: alt.tasteless.jokes
Joke
Louis Coetzee
6/21/93
Q: What is the difference between a bonus and a penis ?
A: Your wife will ALWAYS blow the bonus.
 
Google Groups: alt.tasteless.jokes
don’t read this if you’re a wog/poof
anthony hegedus
6/23/93
(...)
Q: What’s the difference between your bonus and your penis?
A: You can trust your wife to blow your bonus.
 
Google Books
Generation Sex:
America’s Hottest Sex Therapist Answers the Hottest Questions about Sex
By Judith Kuriansky
New York, NY: HarperCollins
1995
Pg. 292:
Q: What’s the difference between your bonus and a penis?
A: You can always count on your wife blowing your bonus.
 
Google Groups: alt.tasteless.jokes
A bonus and a penis…
Simon Young
1/16/95
In article <665260…@active3.demon.co.uk>

, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Outlaw) writes:
|> Whats the difference between a bonus and a penis???
|>
|> Your wife’ll blow your bonus.
 
Google Books
Crazy Love
By Tom Lennon
Dublin: O’Brien
1999
Pg. 129:
What’s the difference between a penis and a bonus? The wife will always blow the bonus.
 
Google Books
Jokes for Blokes:
The Ultimate Book of Jokes not Suitable for Mixed Company
By Llewellyn Dowd and Phil McCracken
London: Ebury Press
2011
Pg. 493:
What’s the difference between a penis and a bonus? Your wife will blow your bonus.
 
Reddit
What’s the difference between a penis and a bonus?
submitted April 27, 2013 by Pressedforwords
The wife always blows the bonus.
 
Reddit
What’s the difference between a bonus and a penis?
submitted August 3, 2016 by hawkensvonshriek
A wife will blow a bonus.