How's this for unusual publicity: a photo of my dictionary of one-letter words being endorsed by a feline friend of the First Dog of Kentucky (the First Dog being the governor's wife's pet).  Let's see ... how many "degrees of separation" is that?  Governor, First Lady, First Dog, feline friend, cat's owner, me.  Yep, it's a classic "six degrees of separation" scenario, but "once removed" in terms of the species jump.

Ken commented:

The Governor has probably met someone even more famous at some political or social gathering.  It might even "backtrack" back to you in another direction, so that you'd be x degrees of separation from yourself.