Really annoying riddle

A barrister friend of mine has promised to buy me lunch if I can crack this riddle - he can't do it either apparently, so neither of us has the answer so stop reading unless you want to spend your afternoon getting progressively more frustrated...but here's the riddle - any ideas???

by the way, I figured that 9-10-11 might be "dog"...insect is perhaps "wasp" and the heavenly body a "star", leaving us with Waspstardog...which doesn't seem right somehow.

so SPS is a kind of food? I think you're right something seems a bit off.

What about Mars for the heavenly body?

the insect could be moth or flea
if you can think of a heavenly body that starts with a "t", then the kind of food could be "eat" if it's flea

waspmarsdog?

and spm as a type of food?

doesn't have to be "wasp", though, does it (see above)?

the heavenly body could also be moon...

Do you know for sure an answer exists Jimbo? I tried it out myself and then resorted to google and could only find a couple of instances of threads like this, people guessing but I didnt find an answer, and thats since 2001.

mothmoondog! lol

We are just gonna make up loads of new words aren't we

I have a sneaky feeling that is all this riddle is for. Especially seeing as there are references to it on the web from 2001 but no sign of any solution...

I don't think any words end in stardog or marsdog so think we're "barking" up the wrong path.

EDIT: except, didn't Keanu Reeves have a band called Doggstar?

yes, I'm lame

yeah, i don't think dog is right - dunno what else it could be, though

Pal.

Could be a an acronym rather than a word?

I have been searching this page with ctrl f for any words and nothing makes sense.
Eleven letter Words

motherboard would fit some of it...
not all of it, though

Was gonna shoot with motherinlaw

Moth is insect
The Law is your best friend (maybe)
Is there a star called "Erin"?

Kinda falls over on the rest though.

motherbolaw

I've never eaten a "the" either.

"the" is french for "tea" - could that be it?

probably clutching at straws, though...

As I said, it doesn't stand up to the rest. But all suggestions are good as they might send someone in the right direction.

the law is no friend of mine

possible best friends: law, dog, you, gun (I'm from Wyoming after all), pal, bud, Joe (grasping), God, ...

or mum as the best friend?

(aww, isn't that sweet?)

4 letter words insect:
gnat, worm, wasp, flea

3 letters type of food:
pie, egg, dry, hot, tea, pea,

4 letters heavenly body:
moon, star, wing, gate, tree (spiritual..?)

3 letters best friend:
pal, gal, dog, cat, pet

Is there a heavenly body called erin? Sounds feasible (though google doesn't think so).. Then with some of the other suggestions above you could get...

Motherinlaw

The only hole still remaining would be " If you mixed my 1-3-5-8 you'll get my 7-8-9-10"

Mix m-t-e-n to get your i-n-l-a.

Damn

Edit: *completely missed Keydeck guess that ages ago, sorry*

Erin can mean Ireland...to some that is a heavenly body

I'm still not convinced about the whole 'the' french tea thing being correct though ... although have found no better solution to offer - yet!

tea is not food anyway, it is a drink. Unless you mean the mealtime "tea" but that is not translated as Thé in french, so yeah, probably clutching vanely at straws.

I'm still not convinced there is an answer.

I'm not sure if there's an answer or not - it's possible that there's not an answer, and I've certainly been googling and whilst I've found reference to the riddle, I've obviously not found an answer...

Sorry...

Where did your friend get the riddle?

Another barrister apparently, and as you may or may not know, all barristers are bastards. I won't get the answer that way...

I think you're barking up the wrong tree wrt "best friend". Read the question, it says "my 9-10-11 is your best friend"... Hence none of the suggestions really make sense. What is his/her XYZ is my best friend.

But it's written from the point of view of the riddle, i.e. the 9th, 10th and 11th letters are the best friend of whatever the answer - so if the answer was 'George Bush' then the letters might be 'Tony Blair' if you see what I mean...

for one, I think this might be a viral marketing campaign. if the answer is something like "DrinkMoreOvaltine", then there will be a lot of upset people in TT.

also, I am convinced that the puzzel is based on British spelling and phrases / meanings, so I will give up. even so, my best guess (which is obviously wrong, but potentiall a cool sounding word) is:

antearsepal
Insect: ante
kind of food: tea
heavenly body: arse

if you mixed my: atae
you'll get my: sepa
best friend: pal

i always hated word games...

is ante the american spelling for ant or something?

I've seen another version of it where it says "if you combine my" instead of "if you mixed my". The person rightly points out that this would mean that letters 1 and 7 are the same and that letters 3, 8 and 10 are the same.

The guy also claims that it is just one word. Well his exact words were "well it's really one word only..."

May or may not help.

Yeup. Gotcha. I'll go back to my corner...

Is the lawyer friend a blond female and perhaps uses the name "elle woods"?
This riddle wass posted everywhere by this person last week.

No, a Malaysian man, but yeah, I just found that site too...

"Elle Woods" was the character name of Reese Witherspoon in the pink & fluffy film 'Legally Blonde' ... do we detect a wind-up, or am I just looking for a potentially valid reason why I can't solve this riddle?

I think you're clutching at straws - it's just a log-in. TTM did/does have an Ellewood too. Doesn't mean the riddle isn't just BS though, as I'm starting to think it may be...

Okay, so a few hours on and this is still bugging me ... anyone had any progress yet?

ohhhh look what I found...

hahahaha

http://www.esclub.gr/games/wordox/11.html

all that link does is crush your hopes when you realize that the word you think solved it was made up...

another link I have used...heavenly body could be a specific star

Star names

ohh and also...for insect your could also use PEST and MITE

It doesn't actually say it's one word. It could easily be a series of words. If it's real in the first place.

Using my super duper google skills I am starting to think this is some Filipino play on words... All the sites I can find, are waffling in Filipino anyways...


At least... I think its filipino... ?!?!?!

I thought about it for awhile today. And I have now determined (after my own lame searches, and knowing the awsome google abilities of the TT community), the following:

if TT doesn't know it by now - it is probably not worth knowing.

this post was a load of bollox...