President Bush‘s "Brownie" quote wins award

[sabra]

http://www.leadingthecharge.com/stories/news-00118166.html


President Bush‘s "Brownie" quote wins award


LOS ANGELES - Call it the wrong phrase at the wrong time but "Brownie, you‘re doing a heckuva job" was named on Thursday as U.S. President George W. Bush President George W. Bush‘s most memorable phrase of 2005.

The ill-timed praise of a now disgraced agency head became a national punch line for countless jokes and pointed comments about the administration‘s handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster and added to the president‘s reputation for verbal gaffes and clumsy turns of phrase.

Paul JJ Payack, president of Global Language Monitor, a nonprofit group that monitors language use, says Bush‘s statement in support of the then-director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency may be remembered for years to come.

"The ‘Brownie‘ quote leads our 2005 list of Bushisms -- memorable phrases or new words coined by the president," Payack said, adding that Bush may be the foremost White House creator of new words, citing such past efforts as "misunderestimate" (to seriously underestimate) and "embetter" (to make emotionally better).

[Oceansaway]

1. Touche !!..was my most favorite Bushism too !!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Yeah

That got my vote!

I want a bumper sticker:
Dubya, You're Doin a Heck of a Job!

[olddad56]

3. there are so many, how do you pick just one? ...

I think he didn't wait until Yale to start skipping classes. I think he might have missed a few days in elementary school also. Maybe he misunderestimated the importance of an education.

[Up2Late]

4. How did they choose? Their were Sooooo many stupid things said...

...that week. Check them all out at one of my favorite sites, Dubyaspeak.com <http://www.dubyaspeak.com/>

Here's the link to the "Hurricane Dubya" page:

<http://www.dubyaspeak.com/hurricane.phtml>

The whole site is great fun, looks like they added a bunch of stuff since the last time I went there, "Fresh Dubya" is always a good place to start:

<http://www.dubyaspeak.com/freshdubya.phtml>

Or a new classic page "DUBYA INCIDENTS" which has video and pictures!

<http://www.dubyaspeak.com/incidents.shtml>

[Barkley]

5. Thank goodness his last name was "Brown" instead of "Black"

you're doing a heck of a job "Blackie" ...

[Vidar]

6. A pet name for his love slave, Condi.

[jamesinca]

9. I thought her nickname was

midnight, or negrita?

[saigon68]

11. Her nickname is 'teeth" or "smiles"

TEETH




SMILES

[Lars39]

7. And people are still returning to find dead loved ones:

Absolutely criminal. :grr:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5713121

[beltanefauve]

8. This one went around

a long time ago, but I thought I'd bring it back in light of the OP:

This is a short poem made up entirely of actual quotations from George W. Bush. They have
been arranged only for aesthetic purposes by Washington Post writer, Richard Thompson.

MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
And potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the Internet
Become more few?

How many hands have I shaked?
They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pant leg of opportunity.
I know that the human being

And the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope,
Where our wings take dream.
Put food on your family!

Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize society!
Make the pie higher!
Make the pie higher!

[Raine]

10. Good pick

that's one I'll always remember, chimp is such an ass. x(

[0007]

12. That was a winner for sure.

My favorite was; "If you see someone ya don't know getting into an airplane (crop duster)they don't own, call the police."