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Laurie C.'s avatar

Pssst: News Alert! Your dad isn't 70! He'll be 69 this Friday. Love, Mom

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Laurie C.'s avatar

Yup. We's old folks from the hippy days of tie dye and real rock and roll.

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Jack Mirkinson's avatar

also happy birthday paul!!!!

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defective dynast's avatar

any truth to the rumor that his brain worm died of starvation?

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Dean C.'s avatar

You have to admit it explains a lot.

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defineandredefine's avatar

Certainly my first reaction.

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Jazzme's avatar

opps I just said the same thing Dean. Sorry for that. But we do agree. "it explains a lot"

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Dean C.'s avatar

Indeed it does...

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Adrienne's avatar

extremely on brand for 2024

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J_'s avatar

This was my response. I was like if you’d told this to 2014 me I’d have been shocked and extremely confused. 2024 me reads this and shrugs.

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Jazzme's avatar

explains a lot!

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r_mc's avatar

What a time to be alive.

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JennyStokes's avatar

You do realise that cats cannot eat Tuna and many people are allergic!

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Paul's avatar

Wot? Wot? No request for detailed comments from me, the actual parasitologist in the family? How remiss of you.

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Dean C.'s avatar

I'll take your brain fluke and raise you a Taenia pisiformis, rabbit-boy.

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defineandredefine's avatar

"The funniest part of all this is that RFK’s actual neurological issues probably weren’t caused by the literal worm in his brain but because he had been eating so much tuna fish that he got mercury poisoning."

Mercury poisoning that he then blames on the thimerosal they used to put in vaccines. Maybe because of the brain worms? Who knows, but misplaced blame regardless.

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Scott Vera's avatar

Hi-larious piece. I thought this was satire when I heard about it earlier.. in what world are we actually living?

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SquizzRadical's avatar

I thought RFK was a Darwin Award recipient, then I read about the brain worms. I think my brain worms prolly have autism too. Random executive functioning like me. "No, you IDIOT, you EAT THE BRAIN!"

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Eric Deamer's avatar

So he got Freddie Mercury's poisoning from eating too much tuner?

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Eric Deamer's avatar

3 squares a day, or 3 rounds when you're talkin tuner dollops

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