He may have garnered a committed and loyal bunch of followers online and IRL, but he never really became the new leading light of late night that he was predicted to be when he took over from Letterman on NBC.
It may have garnered lashings of critical praise, but rapper Lupe Fiasco didn't sell many units of his debut album Food and Liquor, thanks - so the Chicago rapper claimed - to a rash of "internet leakage".
Richie Porte, Australia Age: 28 Team: Sky Last year's finish: 34th Wiggins may have garnered more headlines, but Porte's performance this spring vaulted him ahead of Wiggins, the 2012 Tour champion, in Sky's pecking order.
Jeremy Paxman's probing interview with Silvio Berlusconi may have garnered plenty of headlines, but Newsnight had a narrow escape after a bungle in the emailed transcript of the exchanges sent under embargo to journalists.
The company and its logo -- a black man swinging a golf club, his long dreadlocks dancing in the breeze -- may have garnered a lot of publicity, but they have yet to command a presence where it counts: on department store shelves.
The amiable American may have garnered the plaudits by winning the PGA Championship in 2002, when it was last played at Hazeltine, but when he steps on to the first tee on Thursday morning it is touch and go whether anyone will even notice he is there.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" may have garnered thirteen Oscar nominations, including one for David Fincher for best director, but I've noticed, in recent conversations, a significant anti-"Button" backlash, largely due to the fact of the film's fulfillment of genre conventions as a sentimental romance, whereas "Slumdog Millionaire" wears its social conscience on its sleeve.
James DeGale may have garnered the gold and the glory in Beijing yet when boxing's three musketeers, aka The Olympians, make their pro debut next Saturday, it will be a fighter of equal distinction who is the main attraction at Birmingham's National Indoor Arena.
Identi.ca and its Laconica compatriots may have garnered a dedicated developer-focused version of Twitter's high-visibility crowd, but there's no papering over the weaknesses of a single point of failure at the center of the potential platform.
Riding motocross into the election may have garnered both some fans and some criticism, but conventional campaigning will not defeat Obama in the general election.
