The Most Stupid Puzzle Page

Brainless in Crete, Greece

An Absurd Brain Teaser

Brits in Crete like every other web site should contain a web page with a most stupid puzzle that is brainless - absurd, stupid, dumb, ridiculous or any word of similar meaning in the SEO World of Internet Marketing. ..... wait a minute, are you wondering what's this?? - what is going on here? Keep going and all unfolds further down the page, but if you just wish to take the puzzle test, a real brain teaser.

Stupidly, this is the related Brits in Crete page. It is a diversion. No more no less. As an English or Irish native speaker you may call it 'plain silly', compared to a sweet potato or a seedbed - as if you are in a silly mood.

• So let's be brainless. The Continentals have a name for it:
  in French it is simply "stupide",
  the Italians say "stupado";
  as for the Germans, its "dumm";
  the Swedish folk may say "styvdotter" and,
  the Dutch - "stomm"
  or better still, the Dutch call it "absurd" too.

Even the Greek word for stupid is "ηλίθιος" while "παράλογος" means "absurd". Come to think of it, the Spanish and Portuguese use "absurdo" to mean both stupid and absurd.

But before you surprise yourself with the puzzle below, let me explain that this dictionary of words, has in fact SEO'd this page for the search engines. SEO means search engine optimization.

(A WTF reminder - this page is COPYSCAPE PROTECTED.
Do not try to be like several others who thought they were
smart and did not heed the warning on all our site pages.)

Thank you for helping us optimize this web page without doing anything except reading the text. Stringing these words together in this manner means people after searching the search engines have another way to find the BritsinCrete.Net web site which is all about the Reality of Living in Crete as a British or Irish Ex-pat.

The Most Stupid Puzzle

Let the conundrum or maze, not be a mystery poser, or perplex you, nor a problem, or even entanglement, but be something of an enigma and easily solved problem. (Sounds like a Shakespearean sentence as would be spoken during Elizabethan times, doesn't it?)

Anyway, Tease and Surprise Yourself

So, stub out and stoop to nothing more pointless and uninteresting than this page except for one entertaining, mystery puzzle and another equally stupid puzzle. It will not be tedious for your brain, in fact it should be positively stimulating.

A Postscript: The following words in various languages are all linked orthographically* to the word, "Crete" in English, (in Dutch, German and Swedish - Kreta; "Crète" in French, and "Creta" in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese). Absurdly, these words are: court, cheroot, croatia, crowd, curt, crate, create, carrot, cruet, cord, cherté, cordeau, croûte, croate, écarté, carat, carotte, chariot, carte, cariato, crudo, corrotto, carrata, corte, cuoretto, creato, carato, cardo, corto, cuarto, corte, chorrito, chirrido, cariado, caret, charade, credo, creatie, carreata, correto, corrido, criada, corado, croata, charrete, caratê, corda, certo and charad.

*Orthography.

orthography |ôrˈθägrəfē| noun (plural: orthographies) The study of spelling and how letters combine to represent sounds and form words. Expessed another way, it is the conventional spelling system of a language. In English the modern form of "Crete" is taken from the Greek - "Κρήτη" (Krētē as the form in classical transliteration) while in the modern transliteration it would be "Kríti". Did you know that the classical Latin form is "Crēta", hence the Spanish, Italian and Portuguese usage of Creta.

So there you have it, the most absurd page on the Brits in Crete web site in the name of SEO. Perhaps Google uses orthography algorithms to calculate web site popularity? This page would be a stupid waste of time but for its fascinating puzzel, sorry puzzle, eh? So much for the crazy, zany World of Internet Marketing. There is another stupid brain teaser puzzle below.

This is in Flash, a widgetbox puzzle labelled number 4