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Thread #34802   Message #471914
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
28-May-01 - 06:16 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Schnitzelbank
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Schnitzelbank
"SCHNITT" has to do with cutting. "Schnitzel" I take it would be a little cut, as in "wienerschnitzel", a pork cutlet. "Bank" is a bench.

Put 'em all together, they man a cobbler's bench. (For cutting leather."

Dave Oesterreich