A man overcome by a double rainbow, asking what it means. Microsoft put him in a Windows advert within the year, and it was never as sincere again.
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Logging a live specimen: a bank's fraud-warning poster, 13 October. Double Rainbow, with quotation marks around it, which is how an institution says it has heard of something.
The record gives 2010 for the birth, which is correct, but it did not reach my school until about a year later, and it arrived through a single kid with an older brother. Everything did.
Not quite what the headnote says. Double Rainbow was never really about the thing itself — it was a way of showing you were in the room when it happened. The meaning was the membership.
Filed 15 years after the fact, which is roughly how long it takes to be sure. Double Rainbow: 1 yr, cause “Brand adoption”, no known dependants.
Evidence, with a photograph: a village fête programme, 6 February. Double Rainbow, with quotation marks around it, which is how an institution says it has heard of something.
Filing to challenge the state. Double Rainbow is listed as Dead and I have counted live, non-ironic uses this month. Either the definition of the state is wrong or the state is.
Not quite what the headnote says. Double Rainbow was never really about the thing itself — it was a way of showing you were in the room when it happened. The meaning was the membership.
You were there. What happened?
