Comments on: Aussie Good Luck: 6 Australians who caught lucky breaks

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 22:49:13 +0000

Bradbury’s feat has entered the Australian vernacular in the phrase “doing a Bradbury”, meaning an accidental win or unexpected or unusual success. …

By: renee

renee — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:51:40 +0000

My grandmother was an Aussie, and that woman had more luck than anyone I know!

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:10:29 +0000

No mention of Joe Hachem, the World Series of Poker main event winner?

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:45:45 +0000

That whole Beaconsfield event was just annoying.

The lucky part was that their stupid story rated and they got paid a lot for some boring channel 9 interview.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:43:47 +0000

Thanks for the article – as a regular Mentalfloss reader from Australia it’s great to see us getting a mention.

2 more to add to the list – Todd Russell and Brant Webb, who spent 2 weeks underground in a collapsed mine in 2006, and escaped alive. It was the talk of the nation the whole time, as we were all wishing for their safe rescue. Great story – details at wikipedia/Beaconsfield_mine_collapse.

Thanks again for the article!

By: peachy

peachy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:44:28 +0000

yeah but what about all the unlucky aussies who can’t enter in the ‘how did you know’ comps because the final page is released at about 2am our time?!?! and i don’t imagine we’d get t-shirts mailed to us over the pacific if we won anything else…

By: Max

Max — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:36:26 +0000

And speaking of Wolverine, let’s not forget Troye Sivan Millet of Sidney who was cast at the last moment to play the young Wolverine in the next X-Men movie.

By: TRH

TRH — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:26:25 +0000

Ohno was always a whinypants crybaby, he actually was the one who made the crash worse than it would have been.

By: CK

CK — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:16:26 +0000

Candy – not to mention HOT!! as Hugh Jackman is =).

By: Candy

Candy — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:08:39 +0000

Wonderful story! I’ve always loved the Aussies, not sure why but they just seem like good people.

lol, catpcha “taxpayer stress”