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mechanical engineered adj. Drunk on the strength of designing a machine to perform the difficult operation of opening another bottle. mechanical engineeringed adj. Drunk since last orders, and designing increasingly elaborate machines to solve the absence of another round. mechanical erasered adj. Drunk by the third round, and retracting every confident statement before it reaches the end of the sentence. Martez became mechanical erasered and withdrew his opinion on the merits of the buffet. mechanical erasured adj. Drunk by closing time, and scraping every written commitment from the evening until only the bill remains. Pranit was mechanical erasured and removed his name from the karaoke list with a teaspoon. mechanical gamed adj. Still drunk, and treating every random event as a game of chance, including who has the keys. Darell got mechanical gamed and left the taxi fare to the fall of a coaster. mechanical horsed adj. Sufficiently drunk to function as a three-wheeled tractor unit, chiefly when coupling yourself to the sofa. Zayneb became mechanical horsed and towed a blanket across the sitting room. mechanical horsepowered adj. Having drunk enough to measure your remaining strength in watts, all of which are spent mounting the kerb. Gamble was mechanical horsepowered and expended the evening's output climbing one shallow step. mechanical keyboarded adj. Having drunk more than the fingers can accommodate, producing decisive taps with little correspondence to words. Cionni got mechanical keyboarded and sent a message consisting chiefly of emphatic consonants. mechanical larynxed adj. You have drunk enough to require an electronic voice for announcing that the taxi has arrived. mechanical lithosphered adj. You are drunk and flexurally deforming under modest loads, principally when rising from a dining chair. Shinea was mechanical lithosphered and flexed visibly beneath the modest demand of standing. mechanical moused adj. Drunk enough to treat every small movement as something requiring a click, leaving companions repeatedly selected and opened. Avitej got mechanical moused and clicked Margaret's sleeve whenever she tried to leave. mechanical pencilled adj. Drunk past the point of producing a steady line, yet still making corrections nobody requested. mechanical shovelled adj. Drunk beyond any useful restraint, excavating old grievances and depositing them among the guests. Ellys was mechanical shovelled by the fourth round, excavating old grievances beside the crisps. mechanical spliced adj. Drunk in a way that joins unrelated conversations with surprising precision, leaving their owners unable to separate them. mechanical stokered adj. Drunk, with the result that every pause is fed another anecdote until the whole room is overheated. mechanical sympathied adj. Drunk to a degree that you understand the pub's workings intimately, but operate every part at once. Alica got mechanical sympathied and adjusted the heating, lights and music while Caoilainn watched helplessly.