Look, I really love Angie Kent as our Bachie on The Bachelorette Australia this year. LOVE her. I actually fucking hate Gogglebox so I was expecting to hate her, but she’s too delightful and honest to dislike. One thing though – Angie, beb, it’s hooley dooley not holy dooley and if you say the latter one more time, I swear…
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To recap – Angie has said “holy dooley” multiple times in this Bachelorette season’s two episodes. We’re not even one tenth into this show and I’m already having my ears accosted and my blood boiled by this wrong turn of phrase.
I just assumed everyone knew holy dooley was incorrect, but apparently this isn’t true. Like I saw this on Twitter, for example:
As @hotchook69 pointed out, Angie is representing “holy dooley” which is the correct phrase, not “hooley dooley.” An icon. #BacheloretteAU
— Bec Shaw (@Brocklesnitch) October 9, 2019
And then someone in the All Aussie Mystery Hour podcast group started a poll, which is going well but still has an alarming amount of “holy dooley” voters:
THIRTY SIX PEOPLE BELIEVE DEEP IN THEIR SOUL, INCLUDING MY FRIEND AMY UP THERE, THAT HOLY DOOLEY IS A THING.
Thankfully, my colleagues are a more normal bunch. I asked them to vote with emoji for the right term.
Thank god I work with people who don’t have brain worms (except for the two who voted for holy dooley. I see you.)
While I cannot fathom the type of brain that thinks it’s holy dooley, I’m not going to sit here and yell at you all without some facts behind me.
Obviously I had to investigative journalism this bitch.
Throwing “is it holy dooley or hooley dooley” into Google got me to Phrases.co.uk, who are telling me the correct AUSSIE way is hooley.
Well, some rando in their forum is at least.
I mean the fact they’ve just completely made up a “variation in a jewish accent” is enough grounds to dismiss this entire post. So I hit up urbandictionary.com.
Alarming news.
I mean, we have to go with the one that has the most thumbs ups, right?
No, I cannot concede. I need more information. How about Australiaday.com.au!
Finally we’re getting somewhere. The site is even run by the government! Great news! I don’t really understand it’s point but who cares!
Outbackdictionary.com also coming up with the truth.
So to summarise this essay, Outback Dictionary + government-run Australia Day website > everything else.
Also, just my opinion > everything else, haha I lied! I AM just going to blindly believe my truth and ignore any arguments!
