Holy Mackerel

Holy Mackerel may refer to:

  • The Holy Mackerel, a part of the Chandelier in the Massachusetts Senate
  • The Holy Mackerel, a 1960s band featuring Paul Williams
  • The Holy Mackerel, a 1990s band fronted by Les Claypool
  • "Holy mackerel!", an exclamation originating from the American television show Amos 'n' Andy
  • "Hey Hey Holy Mackerel", a 1969 Chicago Cubs fight song, written by Johnny Frigo
  • The "Holy Mackerel", a humorous colloquialism for the fish-shaped Ichthys symbol
  • HolyMackerel, a Florida beer

Famous quotes containing the words holy and/or mackerel:

    When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell’s major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    A village seems thus, where its able-bodied men are all plowing the ocean together, as a common field. In North Truro the women and girls may sit at their doors, and see where their husbands and brothers are harvesting their mackerel fifteen or twenty miles off, on the sea, with hundreds of white harvest wagons, just as in the country the farmers’ wives sometimes see their husbands working in a distant hillside field. But the sound of no dinner-horn can reach the fisher’s ear.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)