The "ice cream" metaphor - provenance?

[Charlie_Tan]

The OP didn’t seem familiar to me, so I checked their profile to see if something jogged my memory. And found this:

@Orr_G

All right, so this thread was a bust. Too bad. I recognize my weaknesses in creating things that attract the interest of fellow 'Dopers, but I lack the experience in my writing to correct those weaknesses.

And from that same thread:

@Orr_G

If I were a better 'Doper, I’d have made this thread more interesting somehow. Because that’s just the type of scenario I’d hope the 'Dope could come up with, and I think that a bunch of those would be really fucking entertaining and, you know, all intellectual and stuff.