Other Kinds of Aunt Sally
- Aunt Sally is a character in Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn who attempts to adopt and civilize Huck.
- Aunt Sally appears as a character portrayed by Una Stubbs in the television adaptation of the children's serial Worzel Gummidge, produced by Southern Television for ITV from 1979 to 1981. She is a fairground doll of the type used as a target for throwing competitions but nevertheless considers herself to be of a superior class to Worzel, a scarecrow and her frustrated suitor.
- The term "Aunt Sally" is used in Great Britain to indicate a false adversary or straw man set up purely for attracting negative attention and wasting an opponent's energy.
- The technique is sometimes used during planning applications when the applicant needs to show they exhausted all other options and need to create false alternatives that are easily identified as unsuitable.
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