I’m a fan of obvious questions that usually don’t get asked. Or at least not typically asked out loud. I think more of these obvious questions should be asked out loud, regardless of how silly they may sound. Which is why the question “A henge? Well, what’s a henge?” has always stuck with me. Someone brings up Stonehenge and I’m repeating the question that Michael Flanders asked years ago. Usually with my inside voice.

The topic of Stonehenge came up recently and, instead of keeping the question inside, I asked it out loud. “What’s a henge?”. Lene had her phone handy before I could get to the Internet.

“It’s a neolithic earthwork with a circular or oval mound with a ditch on the inside. It’s assumed to be used for ritual purposes as the ditch isn’t on the outside for defense.”