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Anonymous
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CN Question
Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:05 AM
Why do they call the CN logo the Wet Noodle? Thanks for the help

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Posted by CShaveRR on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:08 AM
Because if you like to play with your food, and had a wet noodle that was long enough, you could bend it into the shape of the CN logo.

Bon appetit!

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 12:11 AM
Thank You for the Idea I'll try it someday.

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Posted by jchnhtfd on Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:58 AM
CN's subsidiaries all had wet noodles too, at one time -- some of them were rather fanciful!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 7, 2004 1:50 PM
the "Wet Noodle" was voted best logo in the world. I'm not sure where I read this, but probably the CN site: http://www.cn.ca They have (or had) a bunch of information on the background and history of all of their logos
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 7, 2004 3:51 PM
I bent my wet noodle into the shape of a Doggy!! LOL!!

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 7, 2004 4:11 PM
LC,
Nice Joke LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 7, 2004 6:08 PM
It's supposed to represent the continuity of the train tracks.

The whole noodle is one piece.

I remember seeing a few Grand Trunk locomotives and their logo was a wet noodle only it made a GT.
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Posted by CShaveRR on Wednesday, April 7, 2004 8:22 PM
It isn't easy finding those T-shaped noodles!

Notice they gave up completely when it came to "DW&P".

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 8, 2004 6:06 AM
I think that the Central Vermont ( CV ) logo was another CN subsidiary wet noodle logo.

If you launch this link and then scroll down a bit, you'll see a photo of a locomotive (dark green geep - 2nd photo down on the left.) with the CV wet noodle logo. http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~twp/layout.html
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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, April 8, 2004 7:15 AM
I've heard the CN noodle logo referred to as the "lazy 3" (look at it sideways...)

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Posted by edblysard on Thursday, April 8, 2004 7:50 AM
I try really hard not to bend my noodle...takes the fun out of it.
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QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

I bent my wet noodle into the shape of a Doggy!! LOL!!

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Posted by dharmon on Thursday, April 8, 2004 10:10 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by edblysard

I try really hard not to bend my noodle...takes the fun out of it.
Ed
QUOTE: Originally posted by Limitedclear

I bent my wet noodle into the shape of a Doggy!! LOL!!

LC



Ed...

Not of course that Texans would ever need something like that...but they have medicine that helps non-Texans with these things....

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, April 8, 2004 10:39 AM
DWP would hard for a wet noodle

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