After President Obama announced yesterday that off-shore oil and gas drilling can now happen across a larger area in the Atlantic and Arctic Seas, I was reminded of Sarah Palin and her “drill, baby, drill” mantra. Given that Obama’s declaration had its limits and restrictions, it occurred to me that perhaps the Obama oil exploration motto should be “drill, maybe drill”.

I came up with that all on my own. But I had a hunch that I was not alone. And I was right. I did a Google search today on that quoted phrase, and I came up with 12 pages of listing. Interestingly, the first one to come up was an editorial from the Washington Post from October, 2008. Then Mother Jones used it on March 25, five days before the announcement. The Economist reacted to Obama’s announcement by shortening the phrase, dropping off the last “drill” word; ah, how British. But some news sites and bloggers saw it my way.

So, it’s still pretty silly; but I’m glad to see that I wasn’t the only almost-April fool out there.