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palaeoeconomied adj. Drunk to the point where your relationship with the available environment reduces to finding the nearest chair. Iveigh became palaeoeconomied and surveyed the room for resources, chiefly a chair. palaeoecosystemed adj. Having drunk enough to regard the pub, its coats and its final taxi as one ancient habitat. Xain got palaeoecosystemed and protected the coat pile from an approaching taxi. palaeoed adj. Drunk and committed to an ancestral diet, provided the nearest available food is chips. Jacquese got palaeoed and rejected the bread basket before ordering a kebab. palaeoencephalonned adj. Drunk to the point where the oldest and least diplomatic part of the brain has assumed control. Latrese went palaeoencephalonned and began communicating chiefly through ancestral noises. palaeoendemismed adj. Drunk beyond recognising that your peculiar behaviour is confined to this evening and unlikely to spread. Jossette was palaeoendemismed, displaying habits apparently restricted to one extinct social population. palaeoentomologied adj. Drunk in a way that turns every fly into evidence of an ancient civilisation, briefly. Aayaan became palaeoentomologied and reconstructed an empire from three flies near the till. palaeoentomologisted adj. Drunk past the point of distinguishing prehistoric insects from crumbs, but not past cataloguing them. Latela became palaeoentomologisted and classified crumbs beneath the table as extinct beetles. palaeoenvironmented adj. Drunk, with the result that the room is reconstructed as an ancient habitat and everyone in it a relic. Kyri grew palaeoenvironmented and identified the smoking area as a former climatic zone. palaeoepidemiologied adj. Drunk to the extent of diagnosing ancient outbreaks from the conversational remains scattered around the room. Saxton was palaeoepidemiologied and attributed the empty glasses to a Bronze Age contagion. palaeoequatored adj. Drunk to a degree that places you on an ancient latitude, though usually beside the lavatories. Jasdev became palaeoequatored and insisted the corridor marked a vanished equatorial zone. palaeoestuaried adj. Drunk on the strength of merging several conversations into one brackish discussion about taxis. Bubbles became palaeoestuaried and joined three unrelated conversations near the doorway. palaeoethnobotanied adj. Drunk by closing time, and convinced that plant remains can settle every question of ancient social practice. Doreather was palaeoethnobotanied and reconstructed a vanished society from the garnish tray. palaeoethnobotanisted adj. Having drunk more than is good for interpretation, yet cataloguing every seed, skin and garnish left on the table as if they were evidence of something. Katrina was thoroughly palaeoethnobotanisted, reading the olive stones like a stratigraphic record of the evening. palaeoethnologied adj. Having drunk more than the occasion warranted, and interpreting ordinary manners as relics of extinct cultures. Alwayne grew palaeoethnologied and supplied an ethnology of the queue for the toilets. palaeoethnologisted adj. Sufficiently drunk to classify the company according to cultures that have not existed for several millennia. Caelie was palaeoethnologisted and assigned the regulars to competing prehistoric traditions. palaeoethologied adj. Of a drinker: behaving as though the extinct human species had left notes on how to conduct an evening. Aanyla was palaeoethologied and compared the landlord's gestures with those of an extinct hominin.