The only high-end console that plays a range of games over the Internet is Sega's famously failed Dreamcast, which is no longer being manufactured.

Despite the reputation of the Beetle showbag for ubiquity, comedian Rove McManus famously failed to find one when he visited the Royal Adelaide Show in 2001.

And Mr. Hogg's Isabella remains ramrod-stiff and standoffish almost through to the play's last scene, in which she famously fails to respond to the duke's twice-tendered offer of marriage.

Ruskin, to his misfortune, famously failed to grasp the value of the work of the American-born Whistler, regarding him as a dabbling provocateur.

In the UK, the pairing famously failed to reach No. 1 in the singles charts, stalling one place below Engelbert Humperdinck's "Release Me".

Samuel Barber's opera "Antony and Cleopatra" failed famously at its premiere in 1966, which inaugurated the new Lincoln Center home of the Metropolitan Opera.

Apple Computer failed famously with its Newton handheld.

Chanda detached 4,000 of his siege force in an attempt to recover Arcot; this attempt famously failed, propelling Clive into a more prominent role in India.

He famously failed in an attempt to win seven Commonwealth golds and the standard in Manchester wasn't quite the same as it is here in Beijing.

He was the hangman who famously failed to hang John Babbacombe Lee - "The Man They Couldn't Hang" - in 1885.