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Old 09-22-18 | 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by noglider
[MENTION=151366]BobbyG[/MENTION], it comes from Ecclesiastes.

https://www.chabad.org/library/bible.../Chapter-3.htm
Thanks, Tom. I had never looked at that in hebrew before. And in the first hebrew line I find one more pertinent cycling reference.

The phrase "under heaven" in hebrew is "תַּ֥חַת הַשָּׁמָֽיִם"/"tachat ha-shamayim". The word ta-chat means"under" or "bottom", and in the european (ashkenaz) dialect it is pronounced ta-chas, which then becomes the Yiddish word tuchus (or toochis/tookis) which means butt or derriere.

And that is a big "under"-lying issue for many cyclists.
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