George's best Bushisms

AN ill-timed endorsement of the now-disgraced former head of the agency responsible for the Hurricane Katrina relief effort has won a popular vote of US President George W. Bush's "Bush-isms" for 2005.

Call it the wrong phrase at the wrong time but "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job" was named President 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.

Brazilian prostitute Val (L) models a fashion creation by the non-profit organization Davida in Rio de Janeiro's Tiradentes Square, a popular hangout for the city's prostitutes and their potential clients, December 5, 2005. (Bruno Domingos/Reuters) 

Britains Queen Elizabeth II smiles as she is greeted at St Mary Magdalenes church on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk December 25, 2005. Spoof posters depicting Britain's Queen Elizabeth having sex with the U.S. and French presidents and displayed across Vienna are causing embarrassment just days ahead of Austria's taking over the EU presidency. (Chris Radburn/PA/WPA/Pool/Reuters) 

Supermodel Tyra Banks, host of the UPN television reality series 'America's Next Top Model' poses at the show's finale in Hollywood December 7, 2005. The winner, Nicole Linkletter, a 20-year-old student, received a $100,000 contract to model for the CoverGirl cosmetics company, the opportunity to be managed by Ford Models and will appear on the cover of ELLEgirl magazine in February 2006. REUTERS/Fred Prouser 

Czech Republic's supermodel Eva Herzigova walks down a runway in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005. Herzigova says she wants to direct a movie about her Cinderella-like life, a Hong Kong magazine reported in its January issue. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) 

A woman undergoes testing by the GK-1 lie detector, a prototype of which is in use at a Russian airport, in this handout picture released November 17, 2005 by Nemesysco. A new walk-through airport lie detector made in Israel may prove to be the toughest challenge yet for potential hijackers or drugs smugglers. Picture taken November 17, 2005. To match feature Security Lie Detector REUTERS/Handout 

A handout image shows the Million Dollar Homepage website of Alex Tew December 29, 2005. Tew had the brainstorm for his million dollar home page called, logically enough, www.milliondollarhomepage.com. The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. (Handout/Reuters)

Melissa from Montreal, Canada, walks out of the the waters of Kamala beach on the Thai resort island of Phuket December 25, 2005. (Nicky Loh/Reuters) 

A member of a demolition crew looks at a huge boulder which fell onto Topanga Cyn following heavy rains in California. A member of a demolition crew looks at a huge boulder which fell onto Topanga Cyn following heavy rains in California on January 10, 2005. Winter storms have pummeled California since mid-December, bringing 40 percent more rainfall than the area typically gets all winter. At least 11 people have been killed in the storms, which meteorologists said were particularly damaging because they came one after the other with no break in between. Normally dry soil was so saturated that it could no longer absorb the downpours. The storm, which has battered California from San Francisco to Los Angeles, was expected to finally blow through on Wednesday, followed by scattered showers and wind gusts. RIGHTS FREE. REUTERS/Gene Blevins PICTURES OF THE YEAR 2005 

A city worker shovels snow from a sidewalk near a table displaying winter stockings for sale in downtown Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2005. Snow fell from the early morning, causing many problems for Warsaw drivers. ( AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) 

A portion of chef Gavin McMichael's Not Your Mother's Meatloaf sits on a table Nov. 29, 2005 in the Blacksmith restaurant in Bend, Ore. The dish that was embraced by America during the 1950s has graduated from diners to restaurants. (AP Photo by Jeff Barnard) 

The GIOVE-A, the first satellite in the EU's Galileo satellite navigation program ,mated with the Soyuz launcher that will carry it into orbit, sits in position on launch pad six at the Baikonur CosmodromeTuesday Dec. 27, 2005. A successful launch rehearsal for Soyuz, GIOVE and the ground station network has been completed. The satellite, named 'Giove A,' took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard a Soyuz rocket on schedule at 11:19 a.m. local time (0519 GMT). After the launch amid clear skies, ground control teams were waiting to establish a connection with the satellite. (AP Photo/HO) 

Djerid sun rising : The sun rising on the chott Djerid in the Sahara desert on the second day of the 38th edition of the International Sahara Festival in Douz, south-western Tunisia. (AFP/Fethi Belaid) 

Actress Tori Spelling arrives at the fifteenth annual Soap Opera Digest Awards in Los Angeles in this Febuary 26, 2005 file photo. Months after splitting from her first husband, former 'Berverly Hills, 90210' star Tori Spelling is engaged to her new boyfriend, actor Dean Mcdermott, celebrity magazines Us Weekly and People reported on December 27, 2005. REUTERS/FSP/Rose Prouser/Files 

India's top tennis player Sania Mirza serves during her mix-doubles exhibition match against former Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek and Michaella Krajicek (not pictured) of The Netherlands in New Delhi December 4, 2005. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi 

Wafah Dufour, niece of Osama bin Laden, poses in an undated publicity photo released on December 22, 2005, taken during a photo session for the January 2006 issue of GQ Magazine. (Jeff Riedel/GQ Magazine/Handout/Reuters)