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Title: "red herring"
Post by: oakranger on August 30, 2010, 12:42:25 AM
Have you heard anybody used this phrase "red herring" before?  What dose it mean and when do you used it?
Title: Re: "red herring"
Post by: Clone155 on August 30, 2010, 12:43:51 AM
Isn't that the same thing as a "Wild goose chase"?
Title: Re: "red herring"
Post by: oakranger on August 30, 2010, 12:49:11 AM
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. 
Title: Re: "red herring"
Post by: Killer91 on August 30, 2010, 01:03:27 AM
click this....

Red Herring Definition (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=red+herring+definition)
Title: Re: "red herring"
Post by: AAJagerX on August 30, 2010, 02:31:47 AM
click this....

Red Herring Definition (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=red+herring+definition)

Neat link.
Title: Re: "red herring"
Post by: Saxman on August 30, 2010, 07:26:07 AM
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.
Title: Re: "red herring"
Post by: DYNAMITE on August 30, 2010, 01:43:36 PM
It's misdirection.  It's when someone brings something up to distract people from an issue that is more important.
Title: Re: "red herring"
Post by: oakranger on August 30, 2010, 03:04:26 PM
Ah, i see.  Thanks guys!  :salute
Title: Re: "red herring"
Post by: Flipperk on August 30, 2010, 03:22:47 PM
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.
Title: Re: "red herring"
Post by: Serenity on August 30, 2010, 03:46:29 PM
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.
Title: Re: "red herring"
Post by: greens on August 30, 2010, 04:18:23 PM
we get herring up here once a year every spring right after ice break up, i love the eggs.
Title: Re: "red herring"
Post by: oakranger on August 30, 2010, 06:31:55 PM
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.
Title: Re: "red herring"
Post by: FireDrgn on August 30, 2010, 11:50:12 PM
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.

 
Title: Re: "red herring"
Post by: Saxman on August 31, 2010, 07:20:30 AM
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).