# "Bloodless Political Coup"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloodless-political-coup/557940>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 21, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloodless-political-coup/557940 "2010-10-21T21:35:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Weedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/weedy/32/301_2.png) [@Weedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weedy)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloodless-political-coup/557940/1 "2010-10-21T21:35:57Z")

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If someone asked you your response to the Bloodless Political Coup, what would you think they were talking about?

I was asked to participate in a survey yesterday, 10 pages of questions on how I’d heard about the coup, who I’d talked about it with, how much time I spent thinking about it, and other things like that. I couldn’t do the survey because I had no idea what it was talking about. I do watch the news and have a general idea of what’s going on in the world, but the topic wasn’t specific enough for me. Is there one particular coup that is THE bloodless coup that we all should know about?

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloodless-political-coup/557940/2 "2010-10-21T21:43:54Z")

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[Australia?](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7851937/Australian-coup-the-rise-and-fall-of-Kevin-Rudd.html)

It could also be a survey designed to see whether or not people would try to bullshit about something they’d never heard of.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloodless-political-coup/557940/3 "2010-10-21T22:40:27Z")

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Was it all “smothering”?

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bloodless-political-coup/557940/4 "2010-10-21T22:48:07Z")

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> [@msmith537](#):
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> Was it all “smothering”?

“They were all smothered with pillows” _\<makes smothering hand motions\>_

Yes, the Simpsons was my first thought too.