Linq OrderBy against specific values

Question

Is there a way in Linq to do an OrderBy against a set of values (strings in this case) without knowing the order of the values?

Consider this data:

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Answer 1

In addition to @Daniel Brückner answer and problem defined at the end of it:

I don't like Concat() and ToList() in there. But for the moment I have no really >good way around that. I am looking for a nice trick to turn the -1 of the first >example into a big number.

I think that the solution is to use a statement lambda instead of an expression lambda.

var data = new List { "corge", "baz", "foo", "bar", "qux", "quux" };
var fixedOrder = new List { "foo", "bar", "baz" };
data.OrderBy(d => {
                    var index = fixedOrder.IndexOf(d);
                    return index == -1 ? int.MaxValue : index; 
                  });

The ordered data is:

foo 
bar 
baz 
corge 
qux 
quux