L.M. Boyd Trivia

• Q. Don’t most engaged couples live together now?

A. About 62 percent do, if the demographers have it right.

• An execution by hanging takes 21 feet of rope.

• Q. Where’d we get that expression “in cahoots” to mean some sort of suspect partnership?

A. Didn’t I mention that? From the French word “cahute,” meaning cabin. You were in cahoots with somebody, originally, if you were camped out together in one shelter.