# 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:** 16\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/141 "2005-03-04T05:35:24Z")
So, who ordered the Phoenix? Isis in ancient Egypt did it, but Flavius Philostratus made it a household name in ancient Greece. In the last millennium a guy in Japan called Tezuka made it familiar in modern times. Then some guys at Marvel got tired of bringing superheroes from the dead so many times, that they made a superhero that had a good excuse to come back from the dead… But in Arizona, Jack Swilling did order it in 1868! [http://thenaturalamerican.com/phoenix\_history.htm](http://thenaturalamerican.com/phoenix_history.htm) However, never mind that arcane info, now seriously: Who will win a fight? The order of the Phoenix or Jean Grey-Summers? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/142 "2005-03-04T05:51:56Z")
Sorry I’m late. I got picked up by an eagle and had a really good time. No, not _at the_ Eagle; _by an_ eagle. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/143 "2005-03-04T15:33:55Z")
What a bummer. I saw **Andy** ’s name as the OP on the main page and clicked in to see if he returned. Sadly, no. I still dislike that he left. In the trainwreck that was the last thread he participated in, I completely agreed with him. I think he got hosed. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/144 "2005-03-04T16:03:26Z")
I would warn you all about the gloom and doom that befalls those who eat phoenix or resurrect long dead threads but no one ever believes me anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/145 "2005-03-04T17:58:54Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > I would warn you all about the gloom and doom that befalls those who eat phoenix or resurrect long dead threads but no one ever believes me anyway. You are named **Wile E** , not Cassandra. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/146 "2005-03-04T18:11:31Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > You are named **Wile E** , not Cassandra. 😛 Um, Tracy Lord isn’t named Orpheus, Gorilla Girl isn’t named Helen and Mr. Boy1967 isn’t named Damocles either. What’s your point? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2005, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/147 "2005-03-04T18:16:04Z")
> [@Wile E](#): > > Um, Tracy Lord isn’t named Orpheus, Gorilla Girl isn’t named Helen and Mr. Boy1967 isn’t named Damocles either. What’s your point? 😛 [THERE! THERE!](http://www.airguitaraustralia.com/AG%20Point.jpg) _That’s_ my point. What’s _your_ point? ---
**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:** [March 4, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/148 "2005-03-04T23:05:13Z")
How appropriate, now that _Flight of the Phoenix_ is back again as well. Now where’s the valet with my wheels? Has anyone seen Ixion? ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/149 "2005-03-06T20:24:40Z")
> [@look!ninjas](#): > > There’s a vulture at table six still waiting for his liver. I’ll get to the Vulture, as soon as I’m done dripping this venom on Loki’s head. Yes. the service here is _very_ slow. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/150 "2005-03-06T23:04:41Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > [THERE! THERE!](http://www.airguitaraustralia.com/AG%20Point.jpg) > > _That’s_ my point. > > What’s _your_ point? [Here’s my point!](http://top.lourd.free.fr/truc/bill3.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/151 "2005-03-07T04:17:35Z")
Pardon me, but why doesn’t the “Two for one” deal cover the Phoenix? ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/152 "2013-06-24T04:50:09Z")
I’m back from the war! Sorry it took so long, you would not believe how hard it is to get anywhere these days… ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/153 "2013-06-24T06:32:07Z")
Dad! Welcome back! You wouldn’t _believe_ the creeps that have been hanging around Mom… (The previous post is IMO one of the rare occasions when zombie revival is justified and funny.) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/154 "2013-06-24T13:55:25Z")
Boy, took a while for that one to rise from its own ashes. Archimedes ordered water from my restaurant, but my waiter got screwed on the tip. ---
**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:** [June 24, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/155 "2013-06-24T14:04:40Z")
I read a bad review of this place on Yelp by someone named Cassandra but I didn’t find it credible. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604/156 "2013-06-24T17:59:43Z")
> [@cmkeller](#): > > Archimedes ordered water from my restaurant, but my waiter got screwed on the tip. I slung him out last time he came into my place. He was still dripping from his bath, and it’d done a mighty poor job of cleaning off his smell, too. “You stinker!” I told him as my toe met his malodorous butt. Guy like that, you’d think he could manage better than I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I, but “You reeker!” was all he could come up with. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-who-ordered-the-phoenix/183604.md?page=7)