> Last night I couldn't sleep and so I began to think and as usual my thinking led me to a stupid question that I couldn't answer, which therefore led me to wondering about it, which in turn caused me to get very little sleep.
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> Anyway, the point of the post is the question I was thinking about....I was thinking about how people always say curiousity killed the cat. My question is that if cats have nine lives, did curiousity just wipe out one, or did it take out the whole nine, and truely *kill* the cat?
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> Please help me so I can rest peacefully...
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> fam "you can tell that i'm not rested when I ramble on like this." ous

Perhaps the saying means "repeated curiousity." If you are perpetually curious it can lead to personal harm...... and the cat became curious nine times........

My 2 shillings

By-"that's a dilly of a pickle"-ron