Squeaking in under the wire: Cali Prompts to the theme of "Space + Room"

[aldersprig]

Thanks to http://www.wordgenerator.net/random-word-generator.php I have a random word, and I can come up with some interesting ways this could be used in Tír na Cali, soooo.

Leave me prompts in the Tír na Cali universe to the theme of "Roomage" and I will write at least 50 words to at least one of your prompts.

Definition of Roomage from www.merriam-webster.com/:

(N) space, accommodation

Definition of Roomage from thefreedictionary.com:

n. 1. Space; place; room.


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Comments

[thnidu]

The dictionary link says:

To view the definition of roomage, activate your Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary FREE TRIAL now!

But a Google search for define:roomage gives what must be an older link:

Full Definition of ROOMAGE
:  space, accommodation

This word doesn't usually appear in our free dictionary, but the definition from our premium Unabridged Dictionary is offered here on a limited basis.

[aldersprig]

Hunh, it worked for me & I don't have a membership. <.

[thnidu]

Looks like they put up extra words at random for short periods of time

[aldersprig]

Well, nyah on them!

I found another dictionary for the link.

(any prompts? ;-)

[thnidu]

Well.... That's clearly not a dictionary, but a site that scans dictionary sites and links to them, simply copying their spelling of the word complete with syllabication. Their "roomage" must have pointed to the M-W one, and I'd guess that they have updated their links between your visit and my try just now: vide infra.

If I had the time right now I'd type it in here from my hardcopy American Heritage Dictionary, 3rd or 4th edition— I have both, till I succeed in selling the older one— or my OED Compact or New Edition. But I'm in the middle of moving, so I can't.

Did you mean image http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/image?

[faeapoclive]

No, I meant roomage.

Fixing yet again.

And yet I'm still getting a fine link on dictionary.com

[thnidu]

That wasn't my question, it's what I got from the site, but it didn't come through well. The page you changed the link to said, for me:

Did you mean image?

More suggestions:
(Each of these is linked on the page.)

ramage
rootage
rummage
re image
re-image
fromage
roommate
roomie
rum mage
rum-mage
rummager
homage
ohmage
fro mage
fro-mage
remake
romaic
romaji
moorage
re make
re-make
room
moo rage
moo-rage
room mate
room-mate

[aldersprig]

Ah!
How very strange.

Well, I've done away with the link altogether and put in the definition instead.

[lilfluff]

Hmm, playing with the definitions some in my head... Multiple prompts, pick whatever tickles the muse:


* If you're one of the less fortunate slaves in Cali, what do you do to make your tiny allotment of space your own and not merely little more than a cage?

* A Cali royal's thoughts on their accommodations while traveling out of country.

* Some crisis requires a royal to make do with more humble accommodations for a time (my muse is muttering about bees, it's probably been allowed to laugh a villainous laugh at this pic of Oprah giving away bees too many times).

* An encounter in a storeroom

* Something long lost discovered while re-arranging a storeroom (one of the definitions I found was: obsolete form of rummage)


Not quite on-theme but inspired by it...

* The space half of "Space + Room" has me wondering if Cali has a space program? And if so whether they ever had a version of Apollo-Soyuz mission. Although I'm picturing the response at NASA to any proposed joint US/Cali mission being, "Hell no, and who let this lunatic in here?" -- So presumably a Cali/Russian or Cali/someone-else-in-space mission, or Cali freaking out the US with an impromptu rescue mission of a US mission gone wrong.