# Do you look things up while reading? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 14, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-things-up-while-reading/996070 "2024-01-14T14:04:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2024, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-things-up-while-reading/996070/41 "2024-01-15T07:07:02Z")
I will look things up to flesh out a small background detail. When I was reading Sue Grafton’s alphabet series, there was one scene where a mention was made of a Monday Night Football game being on in the background. I was curious to see who was actually playing that night. IIRC Kinsey was watching the Giants and 49ers with the game being called by Al Michaels. ETA. None of those details were in the book, but that was the game being played on the particular night in question. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2024, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-things-up-while-reading/996070/42 "2024-01-15T19:18:14Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > “catamount” means what I’d call a mountain lion or cougar, I thought a catamount was someone who is not at all a gentleman. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-things-up-while-reading/996070/43 "2024-01-15T19:21:56Z")
I googled several things while reading Clarke’s “Ghost of the Grand Bank”, trying to determine if he had made some things or incidents up. There is a “Medici Goblet” style or line, but I can’t find any reference to the one supposedly on Titanic. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-things-up-while-reading/996070/44 "2024-01-16T00:38:36Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > it described driving from San Francisco up I5 to the high desert That sounds wrong, the way you put it. 5 does not go through San Francisco: you would have to go some 50~60 miles to get to it. And it does not really go to any high desert itself, though 80 does (and it goes to San Francisco). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-things-up-while-reading/996070/45 "2024-01-16T05:12:13Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > All the time. It’s why I’m chock full of interesting and completely useless information. I’m just chock full of Shit. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-things-up-while-reading/996070/46 "2024-01-31T17:23:43Z")
You may be confusing it with “catamite” although that has a quite different meaning. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2024, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-things-up-while-reading/996070/47 "2024-01-31T18:59:02Z")
There are those who would say they are gentlemen. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-things-up-while-reading/996070/48 "2024-02-14T23:44:30Z")
Are you elevating your catamite upon a pederast? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2024, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-look-things-up-while-reading/996070/49 "2024-02-15T01:26:21Z")
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