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De winnaar van vorig jaar in de categorie "Romance": "As the dark and mysterious stranger approached, Angela bit her lip anxiously, hoping with every nerve, cell, and fiber of her being that this would be the one man who would understand who would take her away from all this and who would not just squeeze her boob and make a loud honking noise, as all the others had. Ali Kawashima"
En de categorie "vile puns": "Detective Kodiak plucked a single hair from the bearskin rug and at once understood the grisly nature of the crime: it had been a ferocious act, a real honey, the sort of thing that could polarize a community, so he padded quietly out the back to avoid a cub reporter waiting in the den. Joe Wyatt"
De winnaar van vorig jaar in de categorie "Romance": "As the dark and mysterious stranger approached, Angela bit her lip anxiously, hoping with every nerve, cell, and fiber of her being that this would be the one man who would understand who would take her away from all this and who would not just squeeze her boob and make a loud honking noise, as all the others had. Ali Kawashima"
En de categorie "vile puns": "Detective Kodiak plucked a single hair from the bearskin rug and at once understood the grisly nature of the crime: it had been a ferocious act, a real honey, the sort of thing that could polarize a community, so he padded quietly out the back to avoid a cub reporter waiting in the den. Joe Wyatt"