# Origin of 'Maggie's Drawers'

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-maggies-drawers/88087>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 17, 2001, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-maggies-drawers/88087 "2001-10-17T22:47:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-maggies-drawers/88087/21 "2012-07-12T16:40:12Z")

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> [@Larry\_Mudd](#):
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> Whoo-hoo. I’m right! 😉 Actually, **TV** , it makes sense to me that it would have been a white flag at some point. But I can’t resist one more [cite](http://www.mum.org/words.html), from an unlikely source:  
> [The Museum of Menstruation.](http://www.mum.org/)  
> [sub](I started a [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=93099) about it a while back.)[/sub]:eek: It all begins to make sense.. I’ll never think of “spotting” in the same way again!

Whenever we went to the range, it was indeed a red metal circle mounted on a long pole. The circle was passed across the face of the target to indicate a miss. Some wiseguys would make it bounce up and down as they moved it across, just to rub someone’s nose in things.

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