I mean like your poker face.
When you’ve got something up your sleeve, and don’t want anyone to notice, what do you do to distract them?
Sometimes I can pull off a segue so smooth that the person I’m sidetracking has no idea that it wasn’t their idea to go there. Either that, or I say something completely off the wall. I have been known to draw boobies on my whiteboard just to throw someone off the trail.
What have you? 
I usually start an arguement. Not too often though. I’m a pretty straight forward person. People usually know where I’m going with any given subject.
Unless, I’m setting a trap…letting a person walk into a situation that makes my point.
I would never try to deter another from my true intentions. I am completely honest and straightforward. I would tell them outright. (he says with a big grin stretching from ear to ear)
That’s pretty cynical of you Portnoy…