Hello!  Just a bit of Schnitzelbank trivia.  The word is still very

much in use in Switzerland, especially the city of Basel, where every

year during Carnival [Fasching] in February and March, small groups

of singers go from tavern to tavern singing their Schnitzelbank:

a few songs dealing humorously with some current affair theme.



They also hand out long strips of paper with the lyrics that many

people collect as a summary of the years events.  They are written in

a local Swiss dialect so that outsiders have trouble understanding.  (-:

Here is an example (if you speak German, see if you can understand!) :



  http://www.schnitzelbankbasel.ch/neue1/Fasnacht_05/Banggomat_05.html 



Best wishes

Mike Moran

Basel



 [ Here are more web sites with information in English about Fasching:

 [ http://www.swissworld.org/dvd_rom/eng/customs_2003/content/carnival/fasnachtbasel.html 

 [ http://www.fasnachts-comite.ch/flash.html 

 [ http://www.fasnacht.ch/?pm_1=21&mid=21 

 [ -- Robbie