What's New?
Murdock Newsletter
November 28th, 2007
Calendar 
Nov. 30- GB/BB vs. Yutan at Murdock 4:30/6:15/8:00.
Dec. 6 – Elementary Winter Concert at 7:00 p.m.
Inspiration
A smile from God
Friendship is no big thing, It's a million little things! Live Well----Laugh Often----Love Much
"Good friends are like stars...You don't always see them,
But you know they are always there
What's Happening Around Our Community
Students are welcome to add photographs to the main bulletin board of past graduates, friends, and relatives who have recently completed duty, currently serving, or leaving shortly for military service.
The Refuge from November 14th. They meet next on November 28.
UNL Math day from Nov 8
Raffle Tickets
Purchase your Elmwood Rescue Squad Tickets Today $20 a Ticket for a chance to win $100 a week for 52 chances to win for the Year of 2008. To Purchase Contact the Address Below:
Elmwood Rescue Raffle
P.O. Box 3
Elmwood Nebraska 68349
For More Information Call Ed Blunt at 994-3295
Website of the Week
em.ishareinfo.org/emknightstars
Tidbits
This is a quiz for people who know everything! These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers.
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.
2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?
3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial l vegetables?
4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?
5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been
cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters " dw" and they are all common words. Name two of them.
7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?
8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning with the letter "S."
Answers to Quiz:
1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends. . Boxing
2. North American landmark constantly moving backward. Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a
half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)
3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons. . Asparagus
and rhubarb.
4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside. . Strawberry.
5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they
are snipped off at the stems.)
6. Three English words beginning with dw. Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.
7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar.
Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, bracket s, parenthesis, braces, and
ellipses.
8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold! frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh Lettuce.
9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s”. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.
News to the Editor
- Please send all your Murdock area news to me. Birthdays, anniversaries, announcements, events or news are welcome and will be added to the upcoming newsletter. Thanks in advance for all your help!
Teri Bowman
Editor@murdocknebraska.com
