Pub games an old woman with a clay pipe in her mouth, or subsequently a ball on a stick. The object was for players to throw sticks at the head in order to break the pipe. The game bears some resemblance to a coconut shy, or skittles. Today, the game of Aunt Sally is still played as a pub game in Oxfordshire. The ball is on a short plinth about 4 inches (10 cm) high, and is known as a 'dolly'. The dolly is placed on a dog-legged metal spike and players throw sticks or short battens at the dolly, trying to
There Was an Old Woman (The Twilight Zone) There Was an Old Woman (The Twilight Zone) "There Was an Old Woman" is the forty-eighth episode and the thirteenth episode of the third season (1988–89) of the television series "The Twilight Zone". Hallie Parker is a disillusioned author of children's books, believing that her stories don't appeal to the "video" generation. Aside from writing, she is passionate in reading children her stories in the local library. However, since new forms of entertainment are overlapping the old her audience has dwindled. One day a young woman named Nancy Harris requests the author's autograph for her son Brian who is sick.