Comments on: Maggie’s Drawers at Camp Perry https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2017/06/maggies-drawers-at-camp-perry/ from AccurateShooter.com Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:40:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.26 By: Julio https://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2017/06/maggies-drawers-at-camp-perry/comment-page-1/#comment-42545 Fri, 05 Jul 2013 08:25:51 +0000 http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/?p=51566#comment-42545 Thankyou for this interesting explanation of “Maggies drawers”, but may I note in return that the term “Bowdlerised” is used here in a sense wholly opposite to its accepted meaning: “an old music hall song […] became bowdlerized […] into something less delicate.” For example, a quick look at the Wikipedia entry reveals the following: “The verb bowdlerise (or bowdlerize)has associated his name [i.e. that of Thomas Bowdler, 11 July, 1754–24 February, 1825] with the censorship not only of literature but also of motion pictures and television programmes.” Consequently, to Bowdlerise is to alter something to make it more, not less, delicate. I hope this observation doesn’t have too great an air of pedantry about it, but your blog is general so well written that I suspect you care about such things too.

Editor: You are correct. The term was used in a direct quote from Hap Rocketto… his usage, not ours. But we’ll put a correction, in brackets, in the quotation.

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