Pun obviously intended

From today's Column 8

While Column 8 was on holidays in Carthage (how does Column 8 go on holidays yet still appear in the paper? Frankly, we have no idea), we stumbled in our holiday reading upon the best/ worst pun we've come across in many moons. It ends the following conversation: ''I knew a guy like you once. Hated my puns. So I bet him that if I gave him my top ten puns, at least one of them would raise a laugh.'' ''So, how did you go? Did one of them make him crack up?'' ''Nah. No pun in ten did.''