People wrapping presents for Christmas.
Hoard any old kitchen- or toilet-roll tubes, and before you wrap the presents stuff the tubes with newspaper til they're solid and sticky-tape them firmly to whatever you're wrapping.
The unusually shaped present will cause your friends and relatives to think you've got them something unusual and exotic and it will keep them guessing right up until they unwrap the inevitable pair of socks or Lynx deodorant/shower gel set.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Fri 18 Dec 2009, 19:05, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Ha ha
I used to disguise presents in a similar way (e.g. making a massive cone out of cardboard, putting the present inside and wrapping the cone).
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Mon 21 Dec 2009, 10:49, Reply)