This is from an especially funny article in the magazine Vice.

[yreverydayhero]

Clichés are hateful lies... and I can prove it.
DON'T LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG
    Where does this come from? Taking a bag of kittens to the river to drown them because you don't have room at your house? OK, but what's that got to do with secrets? And why would you ever leave a cat inside a bag? It's cruel. What is the cat going to eat? How will it

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[linked2zelda]

the "cat of nine tails" was a whip used on naval and pirate ships for disciplinary uses. it was kept in a bag, thus when the cat was out of the bag, someone was in trouble because someone in charge had found out of some trespass deserving of lashes.

[yreverydayhero]

yeah, but it's a joke.
there's nothing funny about a flogging, whereas the sentence:

They don't even put up a fight unless you poke them.

Well that's hilarious.

[outofsympathy]

uptightmidnight: wow. i didn't realize that Iggy Pop played Nona's dad on Pete & Pete
prankster2025: he did?
prankster2025: wow
prankster2025: way to diversify
uptightmidnight: ha yeah
uptightmidnight: Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson plays the part of an old man tooting a party horn out on the sidewalk in "New Year's Pete". In real life, Thompson is a gonzo journalist and author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
prankster2025: no way!
prankster2025: chrisneal is gonna wanna hear that

[katmurph]

Sometimes cats like to get inside of paper grocery bags. I don't know why but I think all cats like this.

True meaning of "sacked"

[marrantemere]

Back in the day - your greatgrandmother's day, Uncle Andreas and Uncle Gabriel used to "neuter" the tomcats by putting them in a bag or a boot - head first of course. I can see why one wouldn't want to let the cat out of the bag during this procedure.