Lateral Thinking Puzzles. Let's do it again!

**Reply to Aspidistra:

Who is that famous lady under the giant tongue?**

Is the tongue the tongue of a real creature? No

A representation of a real creature? No

Is it the “tongue” of a non-creature artifact (eg, like shoes have tongues)? Yes

Is the famous lady a real person? No

A representation of a real person? No

Is the (real) famous lady alive now? No

Is the tongue touching her? No

No to all

Is famous lady a representation of a human female?

No.

Is the tongue a part of a shoe?
Is the tongue a part of a wagon?
Is the tongue a piece of wood joinery?
Is the tongue a geographical feature?

(I hope it’s one of these, because I don’t know of any other sorts of non-creature artifact tongues)

Well… I hate to namedrop, but my buddies Merriem and Webster know three more…

Is the tongue tapering flame (a tongue of fire)?

A movable pin in a buckle?

Metal ball suspended inside a bell?

Shoe

Is it Mother Hubbard?

Actually, is it the old woman who lived in a shoe, who had so many children she didn’t know what to do?

I thought this immediately but it isn’t an actual representation of a female human?

**This is the answer.

I will try and do better next time.**

**Jeremy, his friends, and strangely even his enemies all continued to contribute to society well past their own life. What did they do and how is this possible?
**

Have fun!

Are they humans?
Did they create art?
Did they contribute medically?
Was it the contribution something from/of their bodies?
Money?
Was it a positive contribution?
Was the contribution intentional?

Jeremy, his friends, and strangely even his enemies all continued to contribute to society well past their own life. What did they do and how is this possible?

**Jeremy, his friends, and strangely even his enemies all continued to contribute to society well past their own life. What did they do and how is this possible?
**

Are Jeremy et al plants?
Do their bodies decay in a beneficial way?

**Jeremy, his friends, and strangely even his enemies all continued to contribute to society well past their own life. What did they do and how is this possible?
**

NO to both.

Were they plankton and/or bacteria?

Did their dead bodies turn into fossil fuels?

Are Jeremy et al mammals?
Birds?
Fish?
Fungi?

Are their body parts used in some beneficial way?

NO

**MAMMALS

YES to body parts being used in some beneficial way.**

Is “society” human society?

Are the body parts used as tools?

Are the body parts a single type of part, such as Bone, Teeth, Tendons, Skin or is it a variety of parts?