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palaeobasinned adj. Drunk to the extent of becoming an extinct channel through which every conversation must once have flowed. palaeobathymetried adj. Drunk since last orders, and measuring the depth of every silence while companions wait for you to resurface. Latrease sat palaeobathymetried, estimating the depth of each pause before answering. palaeobatrachided adj. Sharpened by drink into a person who sits very still, watches the room and leaps at crisps. palaeobeached adj. Drunk by closing time, and stranded among your companions after the social tide has withdrawn. palaeobiochemistried adj. Sufficiently drunk to explain every friendship as an ancient reaction requiring a controlled environment. palaeobiocoenosised adj. Loosened by drink into a complete little ecosystem, supporting several conversations and one abandoned half. Coraima became palaeobiocoenosised in the snug, sustaining three chats and a neglected lager. palaeobiodiversitied adj. Slowed by drink to catalogue the vanished abundance of life, then unable to find the lavatory. palaeobiogeographered adj. Having drunk more than your companions can tolerate, and redistributing them across several vanished social continents. palaeobiogeographied adj. You are drunk and relocating the people around you according to an obsolete map of the party. Krishell went palaeobiogeographied and moved three friends into a prehistoric seating arrangement. palaeobiogeologied adj. Of a drinker who has reconstructed the party's social strata from ancient fragments and made everyone hear the findings. Neziyah grew palaeobiogeologied and dated each friendship by its earliest surviving anecdote. palaeobiologied adj. Slowed by drink to the pace of prehistoric life, especially when asked to leave the bar. palaeobiologisted adj. Emboldened by drink to classify every living thing in the pub, including the landlord. Siddhi got palaeobiologisted and began identifying the bar staff by evolutionary advantage. palaeobiomechanicsed adj. Drunk and applying the laws of leverage, balance and extinct locomotion to the walk home. palaeobotanied adj. Sharpened by drink into identifying ancient plants in the wallpaper while everyone else asks for the keys. palaeobotanisted adj. Reduced by drink to studying the plant life in every room while companions wait beside the coat rack. palaeoburrowed adj. Too drunk to leave the hollow in which you have settled, though it is plainly recent. Jakela was palaeoburrowed beneath the coats before anyone noticed.