Eureka Edit Meaning

1.

A city in coastal Northern California that has the foggiest, coldest, most disappointing summers in all the United States. 68 degrees is considered a heat wave there.

Tourist: I've been here for a week in mid-July and it's only reached 58 degrees, and I haven't seen the sun once or got a clear view of the redwoods. I'm sick of this darned jacket! When is it ever nice here?

Resident # 1: Here in Eureka it's cold and foggy all summer long, but if you like the sun, drive 30 minutes inland, where it's a toasty 100 degrees.

Resident # 2: When it reaches 75 in Eureka, our older residents die of heatstroke.

See cold, foggy, humboldt, dreary, jacket

2.

An exclamation of happiness or success.

Eureka! I got accepted into Harvard!

See louisa

3.

This word comes from the ancient greek and means "I find out".

Dude 1: I need some money, what can i do?

Dude 2: I don't know, look for a job.

Dude 1: Eureka! I can sell my car.

See jack, sarah, tiffany, linda, mike

4.

County seat of Humboldt in northern California. It's nuclear plant and pulp mill gave it a smelly reputation.

All the good fast food is in Eureka

See tweakers, humboldt, bay, cannabis

5.

Greek for "This bath is too hot!"

A word for declaring discovery.

Archimedes (an ancient Greek man), got in his bath and saw that the water level rose, he figured this could be used to measure the volume of some objects, he was so excited that he streaked through the streets yelling "Eureka! I have found it!"

Eureka! I've got it! Pillage BEFORE you burn!

See eureka, understanding, success

6.

A small town in northwestern Arkansas known as a popular tourist attraction for Arkansonians. It also produces a freakish amount of unhappy, mentally unstable 'artsy' people who wander the earth bumming out everyone they meet with their whole life story, only to oneday return home and ensure the cycle continues oncemore.

"What took you so long?"

"That guy at the counter just started talking to me about his screwed up personal life. I don't know what the point was, except he has no desire to look to the future and do anything."

"probably from Eureka."

See disillusioned, listless, downer, annoying, loser, clingy, bombastic

7.

an exclamation indicating some ungodly midget related exodus into the wilds of nairobi

"eureka! i hope the dingos don't eat my midget, horace."