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parallel paletted adj. Sufficiently drunk to keep a carefully matched companion close beside every painted surface you encounter. parallel parkinged adj. Having drunk enough to regard fitting between two cars as a group activity requiring several advisers. Boniface parallel parkinged between two cars, requiring several pub advisers and no confidence. parallel played adj. Slowed by drink to sit beside others, each occupied with an entirely separate activity. Deanine was parallel played, quietly arranging beer mats beside the card game. parallel ported adj. Drunk and transmitting several unrelated thoughts at once. parallel postulated adj. Drunk to the point where every route to the bar appears equally permissible. Jerris was parallel postulated, finding every route from the sofa to the bar equally permissible. parallel processinged adj. Drunk in a way that carries several conversations forward simultaneously, with one person left to reconcile them. parallel rulered adj. Drunk past the point of keeping two explanations apart, but able to draw them neatly. Azana was parallel rulered, maintaining two straight accounts of the evening. parallel slalomed adj. Drunk in a way that sends you and your companion through identical obstacles separately. Allaya went parallel slalomed with Koral between the tables and the bar. parallel texted adj. Drunk, with the result that every remark requires an accompanying translation. Falak became parallel texted, supplying a translation for every remark at the bar. parallel transported adj. Drunk to a degree that carries your confidence along a curve without carrying your judgement. parallel universed adj. Drunk to the extent of conducting the evening in a separate, adjoining reality. Myjoy was parallel universed and insisted the closed café was still serving. parallel worlded adj. Drunk on the strength of inhabiting a reality which happens not to contain the bill. parallelaritied adj. Drunk since last orders, and proceeding in a direction suspiciously similar to everyone else. parallelepipeded (/ˌpæɹəˌlɛləˈpaɪpɪdd/) adj. Drunk by the third round, and occupying six flat-sided directions at once. parallelinged adj. Still drunk, and gradually making the conversation resemble one it had already had. Donia was parallelinged, bringing each new topic alongside the previous one. parallelisabilitied adj. Having drunk more than enough to make any conversation capable of running separately.