31.   Either Dave Barry is suffering from a case of really bad timing or Osama bin Laden has a thing against Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnists.

32.   For Smith, it was mostly a case of bad timing.

33.   Foreign rights have been sold in five countries, but so far there is no movie sale, and that may be a matter of bad timing.

34.   I guess it was just bad timing.

35.   If bad timing were a crime, Kansas state Rep. Al Lane might be locked up.

36.   If nothing else, a change in the fee arrangement at Destiny is a case of galling bad timing.

37.   In a bit of bad timing for Sequoia, questions arose last week about the error rate of touch screens because of undervoting, or the lack of votes.

38.   In an instant, things can go sour as a result of bad timing, distractions or too many people being present when leisure time turns to serious discussion.

39.   In what appears to have been bad timing, Alliance Capital Management, a subsidiary of AXA Financial, increased its stake in Enron late this summer.

40.   Indeed, Eisner, chairman of the Walt Disney Co., was undoubtedly a victim of bad timing.