This thread has been so funny---brought back many memories of horrendous gifts. When my first husband and I got married a cousin gave us a wine bottle cover made of some sort of reeds or weeds. It was a woven/broomlike bound woman with a woven fish thing hanging from her arm. Neither of us drank wine, it didn't come with a bottle of wine, just that ugly fish carrying woman. When we opened it my cousin's wife said, "When I saw that I just fell in love with it and knew you'd like it as much as I did." All I could think of was, "Well, if I had no taste I might." Of course I didn't say that out loud.