# The "ice cream" metaphor - provenance?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 11, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-cream-metaphor-provenance/969495 "2022-08-11T15:32:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ice-cream-metaphor-provenance/969495/22 "2022-08-12T17:18:01Z")

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

> [@It's not just dark...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-just-dark/691827/3):
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> 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:

> [@It's not just dark...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-not-just-dark/691827/5):
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> 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.

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