I need creative help with my name.
At TechEd, Quest is promoting their MVPs and experts like Joel Oleson and Kevin Kline with a really cool series of buttons, t-shirts, and banners. Joel and Kevin have awesome buttons:
Really cool, right? But what on earth do we do with a guy named “Brent Ozar”? The marketing department will never approve a button that says, “I Got Spent with Brent.”
So that’s where you, dear reader, come in. Leave your best button slogan with Brent or Ozar in it, and next Monday, May 10th, I’ll pick my three favorites and announce the winners here. I can’t promise that the marketing team will let me use my favorite one, but it’s worth a shot!
The winners will each get an 8GB Iamakey drive. Open to US and Canada only, unfortunately – the shipping kills me.
C’mon, smart people – show me that creativity. Don’t make me wear a button that says, “I Rent Brent.”
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I trololo with Brent.
HAHAHA, it doesn’t rhyme, but hey, who cares? In fact, who even needs the Brent part? I need a badge with that guy on it.
Actually it rhymes if you change it to:
I Trololololo with @BrentO
Wouldn’t that be cool if Jeremiah Peschka’s first reply won the contest!!!
I reach for stars with Ozar!
I spar with Ozar
That one might actually come true when they see I’m running a contest for my slogan, hahaha.
I Star with Ozar
Oooo, or maybe Select * From Ozar. That’d be pretty cool.
I invent with Brent!
I’ll go Far with Ozar
I can just see an army of female attendees wearing that one at the booth. That’ll go over well, hahaha.
Doesn’t rhyme… but… I bacon with Brent.
I Invent with Brent
I got bent with Brent? 🙂
Dammit, man! You took mine!! Good on ya…
Alt: Get Bent with Brent
Easy.
100% with Brent!
Ooo – I didn’t understand it until I said it out loud to myself. Pretty catchy!
How about:
I invent with Brent.
I lament with Brent.
I torment with Brent.
I vent with Brent.
Have fun with the submissions.
Jase
“I Vent with Brent” is one of my top 3 so far for sure. No doubt. That’s exactly what I’m all about!
I Select with Ozar!
SELECT * with Ozar!
Ok, this is the greatest one i’ve seen on here.
I’m under par with Ozar
I Represent Brent
Meant to say:
I vent to Brent!
I relent to Brent
Or for people who write bad code, “I Repent to Brent.”
David Brent.
You know it makes sense.
I crowbar with Ozar
Winner!
I select with Brent (the First one was I Select with Ozar)!
I Trick with Brent!
Heh – dude, it needs to rhyme!
I represent The Brent.
SQL Czar Ozar.
There the Albanian option
I kilimili with Brent – Do you like it!?
how is “i dine with Kline” an awesome button? have you ever seen him eat? it’s like watching a cat get sick on your carpet.
OK, go with:
“SELECT * with Ozar”
Ozar is my Tzar
Bend it like Brent
I’m content with Brent; I ferment with Brent; I don’t resent rolling with Brent; I ferment with Brent & then repent; It’s my intent to roll with Brent; No lament of time misspent with Brent;My ascent with Brent;Content with Brent;It’s an event with Brent
“I Ferment With Brent and Then Repent” – ha! That might be the most accurate one for PASS’s karaoke events.
See that scar? Ozar.
HAHAHAHA, now you’re talkin’.
I know it does not rhyme, but…
How about “I Master with Brent”
I knock with Brent!
I rent with Brent!
I supplement with Brent
I play guitar with Ozar.
Stay bizarre with Ozar.
Go far with Ozar.
Use VarChar with Ozar.
On par with Ozar.
I Augment with Brent
I EXECUTE AS Brent
I LIKE ‘Brent%’
The whole I ___ may be your issue, how about:
Count from 1 to 10. That’s how long it would take Brent to save your server. 42 times.
Only Brent can prevent database crashes.
Behind every successful man there is a woman. Behind every well tuned database there is Brent.
If you look up Help in Books on Line it says “See Brent”.
If you run DATABASE_PRINCIPAL_ID it always returns “Brent”.
There is a new datetimeB datatype. It returns Brent Time.
If you try to DECLARE_CURSOR it now fails with the error message “Brent doesn’t like cursing”.
Brent can make NULL=NULL.
Brent doesn’t need TRY CATCH. The database is too afraid to fail.
And my favorite:
EXECUTE AS BRENT works. Always.
WOW, you went all Chuck Norris on me. I’m flattered, but these won’t fit on a button. Doh!
LOL “Brent can make NULL=NULL” that’s awesome!
I went with Brent.
Kent? No, Brent (and then work the Superman logo in there)
FUBAR? Call Ozar
Ooo, those are both pretty good. My email alias used to be Bozar, and I immediately thought “FUBAR? Call Bozar” was a good one too.
The Bazaar of Ozar
I Go With @BrentO
Wow, I didn’t think of the @BrentO angle! That works really well, especially since I’m Big On Twitter (C), hahaha. That might be a top three right there. anybody else picks up on other @BrentO angles.
I Follow @Brent0
Hehe, posted mine same time as you.
You get my vote. Period. I think you win!
Dave,
Maybe I can tweak your idea a bit…
I Trololololo With @BrentO
DAMN! “I Trololo With @BrentO” – that’s good.
Something different?
Go tweet Yo with BrentO
I Rock Star with Ozar
Go Nuclear with Ozar
These are getting worse
Ozar’s a closer
Take off you Hoser, I’m Brent Ozar (best worn in Canada)
Well, the nice and clean one would be “I Went With Brent” or “Brent gave me 110%” but since when am I ad advocate of nice and clean? How about “I Torment Brent”, “I did not give consent to Brent” Or “That Ozar sure is Bizarre!”
Spend your extent with Brent.
I pitch my tent with Brent
you’ll go far with Ozar
Ozar like Motzart
A crescendo of @BrentO
HAHAHA, crescendo, funny.
I follow @Brento
SQLIO @BrentO
As it says on the site:
“provided ‘as is’ and there is no support offered for any problems encountered when using the tool”
I just think that is funny when said over and over again out loud :0)
Consider yourself lucky that you have two names that can rhyme with things! My names are impossible. I never had a good nickname growing up – scarred me for life. I can hear the “awww”s out there.
Personally – I love the SELECT * with Ozar.
Second fav for me is I Follow @BrentO.
Hey, you should try a contest on YOUR blog! The only two I could come up with yesterday were “spent” and “rent”, so I’m awed by what everybody came up with. For you, for example, my first thought is, “I holla at Lara,” heh.
Wow – you got the gift. I love that one:-)
Run the show with @BrentO
I bacon with Brent!
A few
I’m on par with Brent ozar
I learn the bizarre with Brent ozar
I circumvent with Brent
I reinvent with Brent
I’m a star with Brent ozar
I get 100% with Brent
I drive a race car with Brent ozar
I learned SQL CPR with Brent ozar
my favorite,
I rode in a patrol car with Brent ozar
The Mentor, @BrentO
DECLARE @BrentO
I Rap with MCm @BrentO
I SAIL with Brent
I CRUISE with Brent
🙂
I flow with @BrentO
I * with Brent
I gave up lent for Brent
I dissent with Brent
I monitor my extent with Brent
I represent with Brent
In any event with Brent
Don’t misrepresent the Brent
Or maybe, “Give up Brent for Lent.” That might have played well a few weeks ago!
I can pay rent because of Brent!
I #SQLCruise with @BrentO
Hi Brent,
What about
“I soar with Ozar”
Or
“Brent, won’t relent”
Or
“Go far with Brent Ozar”
Good luck,
Steve
Hmmm – maybe. Could be worse, could be “I’m Sore from Ozar.”
I hang with Brent.
I twit with Brent
I repent with Brent
I increment with Brent
I regiment with Brent
I KNOW with @BrentO
@BrentO IN (‘the’, ‘know’)
Your name is indeed, not very poetic Brent 🙂
I Ozar With Brent?
I learnt from Brent (a bit of a stretch, rhyme-wise)
As an alternate of one previously posted:
On Par with Ozar
Time well spent with Brent
or just
Well spent with Brent
I consent with Brent
Brent speaks We listen
Tough.
I’m at the bar with Ozar
Smoke a cigar with Ozar
I’m bizarre like Ozar
Present with Brent
‘Ozar’ definitely has more rhyming possibilities than ‘Brent’ does:
‘So far with Ozar’, (for the hesitant looking around the room for someone more interesting)
‘No tsar with Ozar’ (for the revolutionary bolsheviks)
‘Go far with Ozar’ (but all ready mentioned above, this would be my vote)
You could just put “I ___ with Brent” just like your title says. Could be a good conversation starter and get a few laughs.
No NoSQL with @BrentO
Hmmm, not wild about this one, but it made me think of one I like. If only it rhymed:
“I Plagiarized Brent”
Sorry, not sure what you mean…
Hahaha, sorry, you didn’t plagiarize me at all. Just the whole “NoSQL” thing reminded me of something else, and I immediately started laughing because of the plagiarism incidents lately. Nothing against you or related to you whatsoever, just you triggered a mental chain that ended up in a funny place. It’s all good!
Thanks for the clarification… I’ve been following some of those discussions on Twitter – scary. Kudos on your blog and your performance book that I’ve just picked up, looking forward to digging into it.
You could just do giveaway badges, all of them saying “I am Brent”.
Plagiarize in it’s finest form.
That’s a pretty nifty idea too….
If you do that you shouldn’t have buttons but cut-out face masks to go for the full effect.
I follow with Brent!
Not sure if you saw my tweet earlier…
I’m SQLent with Brent
Yeah, I wasn’t feeling that one. 🙂
How about
Brent O. the SQL Van Gogh
Pass your performance plateau with Brent O. (too long)
I know Brent O, the SQL Pro.
Crush the status quo with Brent O.
Brent O. and his harry big toe.
Brent O. was probed on a UFO.
I’m in the know with Brent O.
I Go With @BrentO
Not sure if it has been mentioned, since there are soooo many comments. Popular dude.
“Don’t be a BOZAR”
“There’s no clowning around with BOZAR”
“Ozar the river and through the woods with Brent”
Long time reader, first time writer… 🙂
I experiment with Brent.
eek, saying it out loud sounds a little dirty. I will keep trying.
How about…
I gained 85% with Brent.
How about simple:
I went with Brent!
Invent with Brent
I bent Sith Brent
Let’s pause with Oz.
I waz with Oz.
Because, because, because. It’s Oz!
I Mastar with Ozar
Wow – way too many on here to read, but I have one that is NSFW, so I am not going to put that one on here. So I’ll go with the milder:
I am off to the bar with Brent Ozar
I have B.O.
This is playing off someone else’s idea combined with Stephen Colbert, so I am not taking any sort of credit, but how about:
I am Brent Ozar and so can you!
You can go lolcats style
I can haz a Ozar
I hint with Brent!
Ok, ok. I should let the Query Optimizer do that! 🙂
I’d go on a Quest with Brent
Even worked the sponsor name in there.
@BrentO know. SQL.
Trying for a Zen like koan.
1) There’s no sequel to fine tuning with Brent.
2) For a good time with SQL Server, call Brent.
3a) For SQL Server he Brent Ozar backwards.
3b) For SQL Serzar he Brent Over backwards.
4a)For real squeal with Quest’s best, rent Brent.
4b)I got real squeal when Quest’s best, sent Brent.
5) Brent, or don’t Brent, there is no try.
6)A Sql Server,
Query was running slowly,
I called Brent Ozar.
7a) I took it easy while he did all the brent-work.
7b) I took it easy while Brent did all the brunt-work.
8) BrentO, SQL-Czar
9) Brent, yeah, that’s what i meant.
10) I ken’t, so i called Brent.
11) He’s with Stupid.
<–
12) select star gave me Brent Ozar
i hope i’m not posting too much here.
You’re name is an acronym for Bent Razor. I’m sure that’s significant somehow.
Oooo, that might be too long for the button but I like it.
If it’s too long, be creative:
SELECT
*
——
Brent Ozar
Or show a picture or pictures of SSMS. It should fit.
13) I called Brent, that’s how.
14) BEGIN TRY @Sql END TRY
BEGIN CATCH{CALL Brent; END CATCH;
15) Brent knows Me!
16) @BrentO does baseball. @BrentO does football. @BrentO does SQL.
17) 42 == Brent
I
Indent
with Brent –Improves readability
GO
I get Access All Areas
with BrentO
emphasis on the Access 😉
I can’t believe no one has suggested this.
I DENT with Brent.
LOL – BrentO you are dentist now…!
No, no, no. Not “to dent” as in “to engage in dentistry”.
“Brent dents” as in “Brent crushes it” a la Gary Vaynerchuk…
Hey Chuck, Let’s do a button for your name next!
I always get David Brent and Brent Ozar mixed up …
Has this been coded?
SELECT *
FROM Brent_Ozar
Yes. Repeatedly. 😉
Is there any chance your middle name is Miguel, or maybe you could change it to that?
It’s just that the rhyming would be way easier if it was. Thanks.
Ha! No, my middle name is Gregory. That makes it even tougher!
LOL! These are all great. I think the Trolololo with @BrentO is the best though. I don’t have anything else to add though because all my ideas have been already posted 🙂
And if someone asks you what a Trolololo is… well, you know what you have to do.
Specifically effective when the wearer is standing next to Joel and Kevin’s T-Shirts – “I prefer Brent”
I am Brent Ozar Dammit!
Pay rent cause of Brent.
I pay rent thanks to Brent
Don’t SELECT * with Ozar.
Ozar’s cooler than Bernie Kosar.
“Assent to Brent”
(very “Kneel before Zod”)
😉
HA! Assent to Brent, that’s scary. Or maybe Ascent to Brent, with a picture of me on the mountaintop!
Assent *WITH* Brent works very well.
A scent with Brent might work against him…
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_rhymes_with_Brent
Heh, i love Google…i mean the Internet.
Discontent? get Brent!
I went to Brent for SQL Talent.
How is it no one has commented the very obvious “I varchar with Ozar”
I party hard with Ozar?
I was thinking something like…
I sent for Brent
or
I spar with Ozar
Out of everyone else’s I like Matt Velic’s “SELECT * WITH OZAR” the best.
I defragment with Brent!
Scott R.
I like that Ozar rhymes w/ “a star” 😉
1) Born to be Ozar
2) I shine like Ozar
Dancing with the Ozar…
Great time spent with Brent.
Ozar is no co-star.
Brent Ozizzle is my nizzle fo shizzle.
2:
I’m at the bar with Ozar.
Or
I set the bar with Ozar.
Go faster with the master!
When do i get my USB? 🙂
As soon as you move to the US or Canada. Check the rules a little quicker next time, you crazy European. 😉
you and your damn rules… i can still win though 🙂
SQL scar? Get Ozar.
How about
“I drink with Brent”
🙂 (by the way, that WILL Happen @ sql Pass… )
i spar with ozar
i go far with ozar
i costar with ozar
i assent with brent
i invent with brent
i dissent with brent
i went with brent
i vent with brent
Can we vote? I don’t have one but
Brent Ozizzle is my nizzle fo shizzle,
Is pretty much the funniest thing ever. Count me in for that one.
Joel and Kevin do have great buttons, but you can do better. No offense to Joel or Kevin though. 🙂
Sorry, this one’s visual.
http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/3689/37448679i.jpg
How about something that riffs the Wizard of Oz?
I follow the Wiz of Ozar
or
Follow me to Ozar
I Invent with Brent
I Prevent with Brent
I Present with Brent
I Invent with Brent
would be my choice.
“Allocate an Extent with Brent!”
ok..i know…a little nerdy… 😉
Go Far with Brent Ozar (probably a repeat – long list!)
Ooo, Go Far with Ozar would work. I like that!
Avoided a stent with Brent. 🙂
I’m hell-bent with Brent
Accent with Brent.
Invent with Brent.
Unrelent with Brent
Need staff: supplement with Brent.
In any event, call Brent.
To a great extent, it’s Brent
My SQL rock star is Ozar
My Renoir is Ozar
Go Far with Ozar
Ozar is my North Star
Slam dunk with Jabber or jam data with Ozar
Road in squad car with Ozar
I Fubar with Ozar
“Uh oh, @BrentO!” but it only works for those of us old enough to remember “Uh oh, Chongo!” from Danger Island back in the 70s.
How about…
“Ozar writes a lot for me – John Dunleavy”
sorry! Had to toss that out there. 🙂
HAHAHA
I do anagrams with Bronze Rat