If you ordered anything from Amazon.com, you didn't get it.
"If you ordered anything else they'd get confused, probably forgotten how to cook it," says Thompson.
Everyone loves our spicy food, and I don't think you ordered anything spicy.
His wife thought it must be a delivery and asked if he'd ordered anything.
However, none of the other patrons in the restaurant there, Indian or otherwise, appeared to have ordered anything remotely Chinese.
In F.P.A's last column, he wrote: "Nobody, in short, ever ordered anything to be printed or omitted".
A few guys said they missed Reuben's, but conceded that they might in fact have hastened its demise: nobody ever ordered anything.
"I figured it out when he barely ordered anything," said Ms. Boorstin, now a media and entertainment reporter for CNBC in Los Angeles.
When Mr. Perez got there, the owner said, he was told by a woman who answered the door that she had not ordered anything.
Courier came today: secret messages from al-Qaida, more AA batteries for the remote, copy of Newsweek, Ikea catalogue (they send me two, every time, even though I have never ordered anything) and a pirate DVD of Finding Nemo.
But as they drink they can't help but notice a group of dour-faced men at the other end of the bar who don't have any drinks in front of them and still haven't ordered anything.
