Indeed, our own "brush with the Bush'" came last week, when for three giddy, dizzying days, Digitiser2000's Mr Biffo became one of the "Bushy Babes", ascending the golden steps to be another of the 40,000 or so people Bushnell - founder of Atari, creator of Pong - follows on Twitter.
Of course, it wasn't to last. Ever the businessman, The Bush doesn't stick around. He's a social media gadabout, luring the unsuspecting onto onto his glutinous inner thighs, before swatting them aside.
They say that "once you've Bushed there's no going back". Indeed, since being dropped so cruelly, Biffo has thought about little else. He tosses and turns at night, murmuring "Why, Nolan, wh-whu-whhhyy?!?", and wondering about the sorts of people, things and animals that might plug the yawning hole in his heart...