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5.3.2 Where do these codenames come from?

So far they have been characters taken from the movie "Toy Story" by Pixar.

• buzz (Buzz Lightyear) was the spaceman,

• rex was the tyrannosaurus,

• bo (Bo Peep) was the girl who took care of the sheep,

• hamm was the piggy bank,

• slink (Slinky Dog (R)) was the toy dog,

• potato was, of course, Mr. Potato (R),

• woody was the cowboy,

• sarge was the sergeant of the Green Plastic Army Men,

• etch was the toy blackboard (Etch-a-Sketch (R)).

• sid was the boy next door who destroyed toys.

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