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Steakhouse or Gay Bar?

Xeni Jardin at 7:08 am Thu, Nov 5, 2009

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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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  • Spencer Cross

    Similarly funny and addictive is Cheese or Font?:

    http://cheeseorfont.mogrify.org/

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Cheese or Font is hard. I got 92% on Steakhouse or Gay Bar.

      • http://www.xeni.net Xeni Jardin

        I am mostly vegetarian, and I am not a gay man. I got like 30%.

        • Anonymous

          Shouldn’t random clicking yield you, like, 50% over a large sample of clicks?
          30% is actually interesting. A reverse predictive power of sorts.

        • jackie31337

          I’m also vegetarian and not a gay man, and I have not lived in the US for 11 years. Considering that, I did surprisingly well. I can’t believe I missed Fireplace in DC though. I think I’ve been there.

  • chris_wass

    It is really funny how there is so much crossover in naming conventions for steak houses and gay bars!

  • Anonymous

    All the ones I got wrong were in Denver.

  • IronEdithKidd

    Huh? I got 13 out of 15 before the cycle started again. Too much watching food network shows because my mate totally wants to be a chef. Most of the steakhouse names were featured in various shows over the last few years. Plus, some of the gay bars names were, well, kinda gay.

    • Anonymous

      I think it’s just random, so you get repeats, but there are definitely more than 13.

  • stosh machek

    play for hours? no, i stopped when i was right 9 out of 13 times, or at 69%

  • chikurt

    As a gay man, who likes steak, I did a little better than 50%. At least my confusion will never result in showing up somewhere I don’t want to be.

  • Urcher Vlastom

    This is almost as difficult as playing Porn Star or My Little Pony

    http://www.brunching.com/pornorpony.html

  • kmoser

    What, no gay steakhouses?

  • Gag Halfrunt

    Somewhere there’s probably a gay bar called the Steakhouse…

  • Ray Drainville

    Wow, that is a surprisingly difficult game to play.