It is more creative, they said, or "more literary." It's funnier.
"It's more impressive if you tell someone, 'oh, go bandersnatch yourself,'" said one fan.

BANDERSNATCH
"Bandersnatch" is NOT a swear word! It was included as a joke - a word lifted from Lewis Carrol's famed nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" of the Alice in Wonderland fame.
So what IS a Bandersnatch? We couldn't find any reliable descriptions of the wily fella, but judging by the links we found, everybody seems to associate the word with something very different.
If you are interested in Alice and her adventures, check out this site: Alice Interactive It uses a lot of Java and multimedia effects to offer a gigantic online coloring and activity book, as well as a good overview of the stories.

Other links:
The Frumious Bandersnatch
This is a satirical newspaper that pokes very clever fun at various political and social issues. Why it's called the Frumious Bandersnatch, don't ask us!

The Acoustic Bandersnatch
This is. "a blues/folk/rock guitar/vocal duo based in Sacramento, California, dedicated to the fine art of writing, performing, and recording good music, and brewing our own quality beer and ales"... in their own words!

The Bandersnatch Home Page
Now this is close to solving the puzzle - a page about not much at all! The webmaster seems to have an obsession with funny words though! We found our picture of the frumious creature on this site.

Jabberwocky, illus. Graeme Base
from Amazon.com

Gatsby, avid children's book collector, loves this volume by the illustrator or Animalia and The Eleventh Hour. Read the reviews on Amazon, and if you like it, buy it here! Yes, there's a picture of a bandersnatch! (as well as a rotting Jabberwocky corpse surrounded by hungry flies - very Nine inch Nails!)

Surgical Blunders and How To Avoid Them
Yes, you read that right! This "humorous" site about botched operations is written by a real M.D. - who uses the psudonym "Fumious Bandersnatch." Curiouser and curiouser!

Bandersnatch Chat
This is a chat area all about - you guessed it - Teddy Bears!!!! Which leads us to wonder: what the hell is a bandersnatch????

And now, the complete poem, for your literary pleasure

JABBERWOCKY
by Lewis Carroll

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffis thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And, hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the momeraths outgrabe

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