"red herring"

[oakranger]

Have you heard anybody used this phrase "red herring" before?  What dose it mean and when do you used it?

[Clone155]

Isn't that the same thing as a "Wild goose chase"?

[oakranger]

Isn't that the same thing as a "Wild goose chase"?

I do not know!  I seen this etiology (if that is what you cal it) twice. 

[Killer91]

click this....

Red Herring Definition

[AAJagerX]

click this....

Red Herring Definition

Neat link.

[Saxman]

A red herring is a misdirection. You see it a lot in crime books and movies to draw attention away from the ACTUAL culprit by having evidence or circumstances that seems to point to another character instead.

[DYNAMITE]

It's misdirection.  It's when someone brings something up to distract people from an issue that is more important.

[oakranger]

Ah, i see.  Thanks guys! 

[Flipperk]

My grandmother died from cancer due to years and years of smoking. She died in pain, she was coughing up blood the last few days of her life...she was weezing and going in and out with a daze. Halucinations took over and she saw her already dead relatives... Thats why birth control is important.

[Serenity]

My grandmother died from cancer due to years and years of smoking. She died in pain, she was coughing up blood the last few days of her life...she was weezing and going in and out with a daze. Halucinations took over and she saw her already dead relatives... Thats why birth control is important.

Wow... It took me a minute to get that this was an example... Either way, pretty gruesome.

[greens]

we get herring up here once a year every spring right after ice break up, i love the eggs.

[oakranger]

My grandmother died from cancer due to years and years of smoking. She died in pain, she was coughing up blood the last few days of her life...she was weezing and going in and out with a daze. Halucinations took over and she saw her already dead relatives... Thats why birth control is important.

Stop trolling my thread.....oh wait, i see what you are doing.  Thanks.

[FireDrgn]

Refers to the old practice of trainging bloodhounds to track missing persons by dragging red herrings across the paths of the hounds to try to thro them off the scent.

 

[Saxman]

Refers to the old practice of trainging bloodhounds to track missing persons by dragging red herrings across the paths of the hounds to try to thro them off the scent.

 

Complete myth and no evidence for this whatsoever (which I guess makes this statement in of itself a red herring).