Vals Kilmer (like "attorneys general"?)

[Wilson Gray]

Okay, I surrender. I've just heard a female child prodigy referred to as a
"Doogie Hauserette," and not as a "Doog(i)ette Hauser."

-Wilson

On 3/26/06, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> That's probably because you're too young to have been taught this as a
> prescriptive norrn. For me, "Vals Kilmer" is like unexpectedly running
> across an old friend that I hadn't seen in such a long time that I thought
> that he was dead.
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> -Wilson
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> On 3/26/06, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
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> > This doesn't sound right.
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> > ...
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> _http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/03/25/val_kilmers_hea.php#comment=
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> http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/03/25/val_kilmers_hea.php#comments=
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> > Astute streetart fans have noticed an increasing prevalence of Val
> Kilmer
> > =3D20
> > heads on the streets of New York. We naturally assumed that some
> demented
> > VK=3D
> > fan=3D20
> > was putting out a desperate cry for help, but _Fox News has
> > put  together=3D20
> > some other theories_ (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,188942,00.html
> )
> > :=3D20
> > When the Vals first popped up, conspiracy theorists (who are in
> > no  short=3D20
> > supply in New York) immediately began guessing who the perpetrator
> > of  the=3D20
> > postings might be =3DE2=3D80=3D94 and why in the world they would do it.
> =
> Some
> > sugg=3D
> > ested  a=3D20
> > corporate marketing ploy, others an obscure band trying to get its name
> > out.=3D
> >   =3D20
> > Some were certain that it was the actor himself trying to get back into
> > the=3D20=3D
> > =3D20
> > spotlight.=3D20
> > "Val is against the defacement of any public property," said his
> publicis=
> t
> > =3D20
> > Michael Yanni, adding that while Kilmer won't comment directly on the
> > peculi=3D
> > ar =3D20
> > postings, he is aware of them and "definitely intrigued. He is
> > wondering=3D20
> > about  the why and who of it all."
> > We learned two things from this story: 1) the plural of Val Kilmer is
> Val=
> s
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> > Kilmer (like "attorneys general"), and 2) Fox News is really having a
> slo=
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> > week. [Related: we've been tracking the Vals for _quite some  time_=3D20
> > (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluejake/tags/valkilmer/) .]Posted by
> _Jake
> > Do=3D
> > bkin_=3D20
> > (http://www.gothamist.com/staff.php#jake)  in _Art_=3D20
> > (http://www.gothamist.com/archives/arts_and_events/art/)  |=3D20
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