When I first created a website in about 1997, I didn’t have anything to put on it yet. So, as a placeholder while I worked on some proper content, I posted a scanned image of a magazine cutting that I’d found on the floor. I labelled it “Decaying Green Corpse”.

Ever since, throughout every iteration of my web presence, from early GeoCities silliness, via the heyday of the tombell.net galleries, to today’s meagre offering, the Decaying Green Corpse has been there.

In all that time, no-one has ever pointed out that the picture is of a well-preserved mummy, and isn’t decaying at all.

For the sake of tradition, Tom Bell Dot Net humbly presents the only-two-thirds-accurately-titled Decaying Green Corpse: