Scum statz!

Just to make this the most prolific day ever in the history of The Online Scum, here are a few new stats on our viewership. Either Egghead and I keep looking at this thing a couple dozen times per day each, or there actually are a few other people who read it.



Number of page views yesterday: 63

Page views last month: 1,576

Page views last week by country (this is weird):

And finally -- pretty weird too -- here is the post most often viewed in the history of TOS, 113 times to be exact. So which one of you is the Barbie fan?

Classic Scum covers: October 2001

Old hands will recognize this early Egghead cover as a parody of Songkhla Soundings, a harmless little monthly magazine published by the late Charlie Hood. Charlie was apparently so distressed by this unexpected and vicious attack that he managed to get his testicles wedged into his car seat, requiring extraction by emergency medical personnel. Or something like . . . we forget the exact details.

Classic Scum covers: April 2006

Unless you were too young, too drunk, or not a member of the SH3 community in the early years of the current millennium, you will almost certainly remember The Scum, the off-and-on-again organ of Songkhla Hash House Harriers. And, of course, the inspiration for this website, which we can only hope will achieve a small fraction of the fame and glory of its hard-copy namesake.

While a full history of The Scum will have to await the efforts of Egghead, its founder and main publisher (hint, hint!), TOS would like to pay tribute to this seminal publication by occasionally featuring particularly notable covers from its history.

We kick off this series with this splendid full-color example from Songkran 2006, the 'Dungbeetle Goes on Holliday' edition. It appears to be the work of sometime Scum editor/publisher Conebrain (please correct us if we're wrong). Note especially the Receding Hareline, which was rather typical for the time.

Click to enlarge -- if you dare!