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Vacancy
4 - shares floor with Tail 'Em and Nail 'Em, formerly Packages Unlimited

Vegeta, by Akira Toriyama
Vegeta

366 - Vegeta (left) is a fictional character in the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. Wikipedia

Vinalon
150 - From this website: The low-grade synthetic fiber indelibly associated with North Korea's failed "juche" or self-reliance ideology has become fit only for rags, Radio Free Asia reported on Thursday. Once touted as the future of the socialist clothing industry, Vinalon fabric is now chiefly used as rags, or as wallpaper paste by heating it to high temperatures, RFA quoted North Korean expatriates in China as saying.nDeveloped by Dr. Lee Sung-ki during Japanese colonial rule in 1939, Vinalon is made from limestone and anthracite, unlike other synthetic fibers that are made from petroleum by-products. It is produced only in North Korea. The problem is its inefficiency. A Unification Ministry official said, "The North has to use too much electricity to extract Vinalon from anthracite. It would be more cost-effective to import finished textile products, even at a rip-off price." - 9/30/11 - More...

Vodkascript
232 - bar; "vodkascript" is programming code that is written so poorly that it could only have been written by someone after that person drank an entire bottle of vodka. Thought it may run without error, it may be overly inefficient, useless, or a re-implementation of a function that already exists as part of the programming language.

Vomit Kurser
344 - Comet Cursor was a software program manufactured by Comet Systems. It allowed users of the Microsoft Windows Operating System to change the appearance of their mouse's cursor and to allow websites to use customized cursors for visitors. The product was introduced as an enhancement to website design and to enable advertisers to use customized cursors for their campaigns. Companies using Comet Cursor for advertising included AT&T Corporation, Energizer, and Procter & Gamble. Wikipedia

Voorhees, Krueger
73 - a fictional venture-capital firm of which Ian Longspoon is a partner; namechecks Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger of two classic slasher/horror films "Friday the 13th" and "Nightmare on Elm Street"; 361

Vosloo, Arnold
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VRML
69 - VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language, pronounced vermal or by its initials, originally—before 1995 — known as the Virtual Reality Markup Language) is a standard file format for representing 3-dimensional (3D) interactive vector graphics, designed particularly with the World Wide Web in mind. It has been superseded by X3D. Wikipedia entry

Vyrna
See "McElmo, Vyrna"

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