“Why is an empty champagne bottle like an orphan?”/“Because it has lost its pop.”
A champagne riddle is:
Q: Why is an empty champagne bottle like an orphan?
A: Because it has lost its pop
The joke has been cited in print since at least 1870.
Google Books
The “Hokey Pokey” Joke Book
New York, NY: Robert M. De Witt
1870
Pg. 5:
“Why is an empty champagne bottle like an orphan’!’ Because it has lost its ‘pop.’“
Newspapers.com
17 July 1870, Detroit (MI) Free Press, pg. 3, col. 3:
There out to be a statute making it a State prison offense for a man to get off such a conundrum as this—it is simply diabolical: “Why is an empty champagne bottle like an orphan? Because it has lost its ‘pop’.”
Twitter
the cooler snaa
@sushisaihara
Why is an empty champagne bottle like an orphan?
Because it lost its pop.
6:24 PM · Nov 1, 2015·Twitter for iPhone
Twitter
Olivia
@_palicki_
A joke from an 1870’s joke book: “Why is an empty champagne bottle like an orphan? Because it’s lost it’s ‘pop’”
6:38 PM · Apr 5, 2016·Twitter for iPhone
Reddit—DarkestJoke
Posted byu/InfectedDoor June 29, 2018
Why is an empty champagne bottle like an orphan?
Because it’s lost it’s pop
Reddit—Jokes
Posted byu/NOODLD
14 hours ago
Why is an empty champagne bottle like an orphan?
Because it has lost its pops