red herring 

Herrings put into a tub with salt or brine, later spitted on sharp wooden spits, and hung up in a chimney to be smoked and dried. Such preserved fish would keep for months (and indeed they were transported in barrels to provide protein on long sea voyages) but were inedible in this state and needed to be soaked to soften them and remove the salt before they could be cooked.

Do I smell a rat?

One key characteristic of red herrings, apart from their colour, was their strong smell, so much so that one use for them on occasion was to train hounds to follow a scent.

a deliberately misleading object

Neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring

red herring by Andreas Wb May 10, 2005

dead herring

contary to popular belief a 'dead herring' referes to the case in which all the answer exhibited in a multichoise questions do not satisfy the criteria to corrispond to the question. this is normally done by a teacher that is identified by the name anti-haasskett or a binary opposed haaasskkket.

"WTF THIS MUTLI CHOISE IS A DEAD HERRING" "you are correct the premise of the question is invalid." HOW IS NONE THE ANSWER. and so on.

dead herring by taskmaster September 12, 2009

red herring 

technique used by politicians, often conservatives, to distract voters' attention away from real and true issues that need immediate address.

Reporter: "President Bush, we have had more casualties in Iraq this month than in any other month."

President Bush: "Casualties, man gay people want to get married!"

Commentator: "Wow, did you see that red herring Bush just threw out there? Amazing stuff folks!"

red herring by sickmaker April 12, 2008

white herring 

A slang term used for ejaculate.

Like shooting a white herring out of a cannon.

white herring by non-sequitor December 17, 2008

red herring 

you cum in a girls eyes then you hit her in the nose with a rowing oar. causing her nose to bleed everywhere and flop around like a fish.


Side effects: broken nose, blindness, and/or death

In the Red Herring, Seth cummed in the girl's eyes while brian hit her with a rowing oar, resulting in an emergency room trip for the girl and tons of laughter for seth and brian.

red herring by Captain Sanders (b4 promotion) June 29, 2008

Berg Herring 

A mythical character who built a church by the sea.

Berg Herring, the mythical character who built a church by the sea.

Berg Herring by what-a-guy August 3, 2018

Blue Herring

A Democrat led attempt to shame or bully conservatives.

So lame that the title of Red Herring is to kind.

It seems... They have no success with anything in their platform. But they still have their Hate Trump and by extension the Hate of all voters who would support him.

The J6 show is a Blue Herring to squelch the conservatives from showing public support of Trump in the future. Embarrassing conservative peeps with shaming them is lame.

Blue Herring by SaltyFishyFun June 10, 2022