# Okay, who ordered the phoenix? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 22, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604 "2003-06-22T19:03:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/81 "2003-07-08T21:23:53Z")
It may have been my order…but I forget. _sigh_ Give me the menu to look over again and while you’re at it, gimme another bottle of that Lethe River mineral water and some lemons. ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/82 "2003-07-08T21:27:13Z")
Umm-my card is probably over the limit…do you mind if I run and get some cash from my sampo? ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/83 "2003-07-08T21:50:47Z")
Well, I was going to get that phoenix, really, but then I ran back to my cave to pick up some cash, and found a bunch of shipwrecked sailors hiding among the goats. Daddy always sends me such nice presents. Tasty too… Sorry, drifting off… This Nobody guy gave me some delicious beverage, but it’s making me sooo… sleeeepy… ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/84 "2003-07-08T22:01:28Z")
Here’s mud in your eye! ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/85 "2003-07-08T22:13:06Z")
Here’s mud in your eye! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/86 "2003-07-08T22:16:27Z")
How ironic that you made that toast twice… ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/87 "2003-07-08T22:19:36Z")
Ethel, honey, this place is packed solid! Lets go down the road to that new place that just popped up. You know-Baba Yaga’s Hut? That place is so new, I’m sure we’ll get served there? ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/88 "2003-07-08T22:22:40Z")
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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/89 "2003-07-08T22:49:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MrBoy1967 \* > \*\*Lets go down the road to that new place that just popped up. You know-Baba Yaga’s Hut… That place is so new, I’m sure we’ll get served there… \*\* And I hear it’s got great chicken legs too… ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/90 "2003-07-08T23:18:02Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by MrBoy1967_ > Lets go down the road to that new place that just popped up. You know-Baba Yaga’s Hut… That place is so new, I’m sure we’ll get served there… > > \*Originally posted by jr8 \* > \*\*And I hear it’s got great chicken legs too… \*\* And a revolving view. How chic. ---
**Author:** ![ISNorden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/47e85d/32.png) [@ISNorden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISNorden)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2003, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/91 "2003-07-08T23:33:22Z")
I don’t think the “one-eyed Viking” ordered the phoenix; he’d just drink a bottle or two of wine and throw all his food to those two vicious-looking Seeing Eye dogs at his table. Still, I don’t blame him for wanting to try a Greek dinner for a change: he’s the manager at Andhrimnir’s Bar-B-Q Pit, and pork every night for hundreds of years is bound to get borrrrrring… ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/92 "2003-07-09T04:11:57Z")
Sorry, I’m off on a sudden trip - Paris, you know - I’ll pick up the Phoenix when I get back. Keep it hot for me, will you? ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/93 "2003-07-09T04:43:54Z")
Hmmmm, phoenix _sounds_ tempting, but I’m leaning towards the pan fried Pan. ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/94 "2003-07-09T05:31:20Z")
I know it wasn’t mine-I had pheonix once and it kept repeating on me…and the heartburn was awful! ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/95 "2003-07-09T05:51:22Z")
How about some Pan pizza then? And our drink special is the Golden Apple Smoothie. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/96 "2003-07-09T06:02:38Z")
I tried re-ordering PHOENIX but all I could get was OXEN HIP. Ptoooie ---
**Author:** ![fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@fizzygoodmakefeelnice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fizzygoodmakefeelnice)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/97 "2003-07-09T10:00:49Z")
Well I know I ordered a phoenix, but things have got a bit out of hand since: I was going to take the wife out for a nice meal to celebrate my return from a long boring business trip. Well I was all set to leave for the restraunt and looking forward to a nice hunk o’ phoenix and the wife goes off on one, telling me I can’t go out like that, covered in dust and bloodstains and all. She insists I have a nice bath before I go. Next thing I know I’m down here is Hades wrapped up in some kind of skanky net. Nice homecoming, huh? ---
**Author:** ![October](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@October](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/October)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/98 "2003-07-09T12:59:21Z")
Listen, if no one else claims the Phoenix, can I have it? I’m starving! I put my order in ages ago, but it’s not out yet. These waiters keep walking by my table with trays full of food and drinks, serving everyone around me (even people who got here long after I did), but they never bring out my order. And honestly, what does it take to get a glass of water around here? Tantalus ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/99 "2003-07-09T21:11:18Z")
(Waitress yelling back to kitchen) “Yo, Circe! I got some hungry people out here! How are those BLT’s coming?” ---
**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/100 "2003-07-09T21:33:12Z")
Ethel, honey-I’m sorry, but I didn’t know Baba Yaga’s Hut had moved to a new location. Why don’t we try Theseus’ Burger Barn or Saturn’s Family Diner? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604.md?page=6)