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Xeni Jardin at 2:55 pm Mon, Jul 5, 2010

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The fellow whose voice you hear in this video has rather a thing for rainbows. This one is funny, but this one is legendary. (thanks, Andrea James).

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • robulus

    In fairness, those are pretty fucking awesome rainbows.

    And right before they went to that thing, too.

    • benher

      This made me laugh so hard, I shot rainbows out of my nose!… oops, all over my keyboard by the looks of it… anyone got a hankie?

  • Cochituate

    Our family has seen a triple rainbow. Tone the comments the f*** down for the family crowd.

    • robulus

      Tell your family to harden the f*** up.

  • HeatherB

    He either took something or forgot to take something.

  • bobkat

    I’m a bitter, cynical nihilist, but even I was getting a little misty when he started sobbing with joy.

    I really, really wish I could be more like him. Sincerely.

  • Anonymous

    maluko tah de doce!

  • Anonymous

    I loved this video so much I wrote some music for it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QcrLOvklkE

    Mike.

  • blueelm

    I think I love this guy.

  • Anonymous

    OMG. Yosemitebear Double Rainbow, meet Radiohead In Rainbows:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FC44-Meq_1s

  • apoxia

    When you see a rainbow from a plane they make a full circle. Bet this guy would wet his pants if he saw that.

  • The Mudshark

    There´s only one thing that could possibly be more awesome than a full double rainbow … a \m/ RAINBOW IN THE DARK \m/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmSt1oEIshE

    • bobkat

      YESSSSSSS!!!

  • optuser

    WOW. Sounds like my man could use a cigarette after this. I just wish he would’ve spun around and shot the scene behind him. Animal farm with all the inhabitants wearing name tags? Solar panels? 11 freshly-killed humans skewered on javelins?

    No ridicule on this guy though. I just skimmed his 250+ videos. He lives more in a day than I do in a whole (hole) year. And his GF is hawt… pardon me while I double rainbow.

  • Anonymous

    Dude, i want to have whatever drugs this guy is on because they must be really, really good!

  • Ugly Canuck

    Rainbows, sunshine and lollipops, for all my “special” friends:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_v468ptuXw

    But seriously, why can’t we see ALL the rainbows which physics predict?

  • Disasteradio

    Man, I absolutely, absolutely adore this guy.

    I made an ULTRA INTENSE version of this vid yesterday:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozhR9fxe1oU

  • igpajo

    Someone needs to get that guy together with the woman in this video:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6HsiixFS8

    One finds orgasmic joy in the site of a rainbow and the other sees a government conspiracy!

    • Nylund

      Wow, the link to the rainbow conspiracy lady is amazing.

  • Anonymous

    Stendhal syndrome?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome

    • Geoff

      It sucks that some people see that as an illness. I wish I could get that excited over stuff in my life. He sounds like he just won the lottery.

    • Anonymous

      “Stendhal syndrome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stendhal_syndrome”

      I just visited the link you provided, #4, and now I’m curious if there’s a name for experiencing similar symptoms upon exposure to certain color combinations. I feel like a dweeb for admitting this, but on occasion I’ll see some particular vibrant, beautiful color combination in nature or in art, and find myself short of breath, heart racing, and just feeling overall very lightheaded and exhilarated. Not to the point of passing out, but close enough to be concerned once or twice.

      Perhaps everyone experiences this, but I never hear other people mention it.

  • Grey Devil

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs

  • Anonymous

    THAT’S what I want on my business cards:

    “Internet Gentleman”

    • llazy8

      Ooh, nice one.

      Doesn’t anyone else care who this guy’s dealer is?

  • Anonymous

    that’s peyote at work right there!

  • Chocolatey Shatner

    Eh, I’ve seen miracles every day.

    • Grey Devil

      Beat you to it ;)

  • Felton

    Time to plug a classic.

  • JEM

    I like Jim Guthrie’s version, Now more than Rainbows:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZuCO_kwn7I

  • Anonymous

    No words… they should have sent a poet.

  • franko

    in watching his other videos, i have decided that he rocks. keep on keepin’ on, buddy. you’re all right by me.

  • Anonymous

    Someone needs to get him a towel to clean up

  • Anonymous

    I once took acid in my teen years and at dusk the whole sky was one huge rainbow

    and I didn’t get as emotional as this guy

    ‘What does it mean?’

  • Anonymous

    If I could manage to drum up even half the
    enthusiasm this guy has, for anything, other than, y’know, a really great orgasm, my life would possibly be a glorious affair forever more.

  • niten

    Jesus. I’m trying hard to be happy for the guy, it’s great that he can get kicks like that from a rainbow. But a bigger part of me wants to punch him.

    BTW, this should totally be labeled NSFW, heh…

  • Anonymous

    F***in rainbows, how do they work?

    • Ugly Canuck

      Rainbows, like lilies, toil not; and neither do they spin (useful fibres).
      So they don’t really work at all.

  • Anonymous

    watch on youtube, press the vuvuzela button, and call the spanish inquisition to get the comfy chair.

    .~.

    • Johnny Cat

      Actually, I enjoyed the vuvuzela accompaniment on the Rainbow Conspiracy Lady clip.

    • Anonymous

      This comment is so full of WIN. Besides the fact that my collegues are looking at me with a startled look. Besides the fact that I’m really ROTFL…

  • Lord Xenu

    I really need to know who this guy’s dealer is.

  • Brainspore

    “I’m in a weird position, because I like rainbows, but I’m not gay. So whenever I go out wearing a rainbow shirt, I have to put “Not gay.” But I’m not against gays, so under that I’ll have to put “… but supportive.” It’s weird how one group of people took refracted light. That’s very greedy, gays.”

    -Demitri Martin

    • Ugly Canuck

      The rainbow was there before the gays joined up (so to speak).
      No color is “first”, among those infinite shades and hues which make up the rainbow.

  • MollyMaguire

    I think *I* just had a Stendhal episode.

  • Anonymous

    Wow…at least he stopped taping before he put his pistol in his mouth….

  • allegedlyyours

    The dudes from Autotune the News made this 20 times funnier, which I really thought would be impossible.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA