Take the case of the two Rots, Simmons and Threadgold.
In a pair of new TV documentaries, Going Going Gone, the film-maker Nick Broomfield visits two rotting and boarded-up relics of Britain's 19th-century industrial wealth.
Much of "Junk Mail" dates from this dizzy period in the 1990's, the time of Cool Britannia and swingin' yuppie London, when sculptors became famous for major works that employ butter or for museum installations consisting of two rotting cow corpses posed in a sexual position.
His white hair was yellow with mildew, his glowing red whisky nose was covered in potholes and his ears resembled two rotting cabbages.
On Tuesday, crews in Pacifica worked to bury two rotting whale carcasses: a 42-foot adult female humpback whale found May 4 on the southern end of Sharp Park State Beach and a 48-foot sperm whale found April 14 at Mori Point.
I only had that one incident the whole three years I lived there, but while I was at the police station reporting the mugging, I had a look at the notice board of all the crimes that had happened that week and one of the notices said that two rotting women's corpses had been found in this factory which was right next to my house.
Five rot fungi included in this analysis are Phanerochaete chrysosporium, Pleurotus ostreatus PC9, Dichomitus squalens, Heterobasidion irregulare TC 32-1 and Serpula lacrymans which cause either brown rot, red rot, white rot or root rot, respectively.
A local nonprofit developer stepped in, promising to rebuild eight rotting duplexes.
Lifting one rotting log, we find two red-backed salamanders hiding underneath.
An infection from four rotting or decayed molars had spread into the jaw and neck of Dominique, 16, causing so much swelling that she could hardly open her mouth or breathe.
