21.   That damned Bibi managed to get out of Washington before it hit the fan.

22.   The chintz was about to hit the fan.

23.   The difference between Sims, Fryar and Peter is that when it hit the fan on Peter, the Patriots had enough sense to get rid of him.

24.   The egg may have hit the fan, as Rep. Steven LaTourette put it at the congressional hearing on the Rich pardon.

25.   The sexual orientation question is routine, but when she answers truthfully, routine hits the fan.

26.   The spit has hit the fans.

27.   The s--t hits the fan right before his very eyes.

28.   Then, in September, the feathers really hit the fan.

29.   When someone like Jennings or George Harrison dies, it hits their fans.

30.   Which is to say, nothing very much before the fact and a lot of covering up right after something hits the fan.