I don’t get this joke

[PhillliPhillli]

I have a feeling you’re all going to explain it to me and it’s going to be obvious, but eh?!

(Printed in our village newsletter)

The weight of the cigarette. Get it now?

Oh come on

The boat has less on it and is therefore lighter (less heavy).

It’s a pun

As an innocent 13/14 year old circa 1979/80 I didn’t get the joke -

Q. ‘What do you do if you see a heard of elephants coming?’

A. ‘Swim for it!’

I told my father and he refused to explain it to me! 😩

There is one less cigarette on board, therefore the boat is lighter in weight, by one cigarette. It becomes one 'cigarette lighter'. Which is a play on words to also mean a device to light cigarettes.
It's not that amusing.

Ok, I don't get the elephant one...

I also don't get the elephant one!!

Oh ffs

The elephant one as if you asked your dad!

I’m thinking the elephants one might be rude and quite gross.

“Elephants coming”

The boat becomes 1 cigarette lighter (as in the boat now weighs less]

Elephant 'coming' - euphemism for ejaculating. Elephant is so large you'd drown in its spunk.

@ScreamingValenta

Thank you from all!

@ScreamingValenta thank you! Although that is really gross. I thought the joke was insinuating that elephants can't swim so run to the water.. I spent a while wondering about this. Glad it's over now tbh

@anothersecond You're welcome, and apologies to those in whom I have induced a boak reflex .

The version of the joke that prevailed in my 80s teenhood was slightly different:

'What do you do if you have a party and an elephant comes?'
'Spend the rest of the night cleaning it up!'

Boom- boom !

A lighter is also a sort of boat - so a double joke
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighter_(barge)

It took me years to get this one... real
liightbulb moment about 4 years after I first heard it.

2 nuns in a bath. One says, "Where's the soap?" And the other one says, "Yes it does, doesn't it".

It's just a play on words. Lighter can be weight or something you light your cigarette with.

Best birthday card I bought was a picture of old ladies watching a male stripper. The caption was 'Maud nearly had a stroke but she couldn't quite reach'

southofmanc

I had a similar lightbulb moment as an adult about a cartoon I saw as I child and never got - an old nun in a dormitory of younger nuns announcing: 'All candles must be out by 10 o'clock.'

I don't get either of the nun jokes.

an old nun in a dormitory of younger nuns announcing: 'All candles must be out by 10 o'clock.'

Sometimes told as: "Lights out by 10. Candles out by 11".
Maybe that might help?

They are both about masturbation, Isabelle...

(either that or I have a filthy mind)

I don’t get the soap one - I think I get the candle one though !

Nuns, no sex allowed, so they ‘improvise’ using handy objects, bars of soap, candles etc.