“Where do bees go to the bathroom?”/“At the BP station.”

A bee riddle has been printed on several images:
 
Q: Where do bees go to the bathroom?
A: At the BP (bee pee) station.
 
The BP pun was posted on the newsgroup ucd.talk.bugnews on January 16, 1996.
 
     
Wikipedia: BP
BP plc, formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the world’s seven oil and gas “supermajors”, whose performance in 2012 made it the world’s sixth-largest oil and gas company, the sixth-largest energy company by market capitalization[6] and the company with the world’s twelfth-largest revenue (turnover). It is a vertically integrated company operating in all areas of the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production, refining, distribution and marketing, petrochemicals, power generation and trading. It also has renewable energy interests in biofuels and wind power.
         
Google Groups: ucd.talk.bugnews
a joke
Cory Hawkins
1/16/96
where do bees go to the bathroom?
-the BP station. (bee pee)
   
Google Groups: rec.humor
An actual joke!
msBob Schmitt
2/12/96
Q:  Why do they call it a roach clip?
A:  Because “pot holder” was already taken!
 
Q:  Where do Bees go to the bathroom?
A:  At the BP station!
 
Google Groups: alt.tasteless.jokes
Q’s and A’s
Saki
10/18/99
(...)
Q. Where do bees go to the bathroom?
A. At the BP station!
 
Google Groups: alt.humor.puns
Puns of the Weak 03-28-03
Stan Kegel
3/28/03
(...)
Where do bees go to the bathroom?
At the BP station!(Sarah, Age 11)
 
11 June 2005, Newsday (Long Island, NY), “Kidsday,” pg, C24:
Where do bees go to the bathroom?
At the BP station.
Jon Weigell
   
27 June 2006, Liverpool (UK) Echo, “Your Jokes,” pg. 20:
Where do bees go to the bathroom?
At the BP station.
     
Google Books
Just Jokes:
A Collection of Kids Jokes
By Phyllis Agles-Johnson  
Lulu Press (Lulu.com)
2010
Pg. 39:
Q. Where do bees go to the bathroom?
A. At the BP station!
 
Google Books
The Bolds to the Rescue
By Julian Clary
Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books
2016
Pg. ?:
Where do bees go to the bathroom?
At the BP station!
 
YouTube
“Where do bees go to the bathroom?
Lyndol White
Published on Mar 2, 2017
Where do bees go to the bathroom?
www.86sidework.com
 
Twitter
dad jokes
@dadtellsjokes
Where do bees go to the bathroom?
At the BP station!!!
8:15 PM - 22 Mar 2018