Comment on Red Herring awards: a scam?Comments−alttag13yI'm amused by the irony of the name "Red Herring". Perhaps the idiom isn't familiar to non-native English speakers?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring−alizaki13yRed Herring used to be a major tech magazine back in the dayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Herring_(magazine)−error5413yI'm with you. I thought these were one of those "ironic" type awards similar to the Darwin awards or the razzies.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awardshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Award−coenhyde13yWe use the term a lot in Australia. Seems to be of British origin?
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I'm amused by the irony of the name "Red Herring". Perhaps the idiom isn't familiar to non-native English speakers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring
Red Herring used to be a major tech magazine back in the day
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Herring_(magazine)
I'm with you. I thought these were one of those "ironic" type awards similar to the Darwin awards or the razzies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Raspberry_Award
We use the term a lot in Australia. Seems to be of British origin?