Puzzle Description:

Swewna Setetna

#1: Adam Nielson (monkeyboy) on Dec 19, 2009 [SPOILER]

What the...

I googled "Swewna Setetna" (and it gave me a suggestion to makes it 'setenta' instead) and it came up with a ton of pages in another language.

Actually the pages are in two different languages, Maltese and Indonesian. Which is a bit surprising since I imagine those two languages are pretty thoroughly unrelated.

I didn't investigate that much into it. I stopped when I didn't understand a word on there.

That's where I stopped too Adam. Linguistics were never my strong point.

The puzzle description made me think of "Hakuna Matata" from "The Lion King"...

looks like greek to me

Hm. I ran it through Google Translate, but it just translated as "Swewna Setetna." Since Jan had said it was two different languages, I tried translating one word at a time, on the "auto-detect language" setting. Google said that "Swewna" is Maltese and translates to English as "Swewna." And it says "Setetna" is Czech (not Indonesian), and it translates to English as "Setetna." Then, since Jan had said it was Indonesian (not Czech), I tried asking to translate "Setetna" from Indonesian to English. But Google still translates that as "Setetna."

So I understand this now exactly as much as I did before I tried figuring it out, which is to say not at all. Hm.

Hmm, I suppose "Cruise!" is Tom Cruise. If he were much of a singer, I would say that "swewna" means "swooner", but I'm stumped on "setetna." Maybe it's a quote from one of his films, said with a thick accent?

I think Tom got close with "Greek" and Kristen is right on with Tom Cruise!

If you reverse "Swewna Setetna" you get "Antetes Anwews". If you translate each of those individually from Greek you get "Antethete Above". (Antethete is something that is an antithesis...same root.)

Because the phrase is backward, we can assume cryptographically that the opposite is intended giving us "Coincident Below", which is obviously an anagram of "Iconic Wet Blonde". Daryl Hannah was in "Dancing at the Blue Iguana" with Vladimir Mashkov. Mashkov was in "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" with, yep(!), Tom CRUISE!

And if you are wondering why Mashkov is the obvious link, it's because his daughter's name is Maria which means "of the sea", which perfectly describes the ships people take to go for a CRUISE!!

The Movie "10" shares it's name with the famous Pearl Jam album containing the song "Oceans"...it's all so obvious!

Gosh, why didn't we see it earlier??

That would do it!

:)

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