Nah other way around. The astronauts asked a NASA administrator if they are still on the line or if there was a handover. Then Tump replied “I am, yes, I am”.

Small snag in this plan, one of the proper ways of disposing of a Quran is by fire, so explosive counter-measures against Quran based armour are not entirely out of the question.

Several EU member countries never introduced the Euro, e.g. Denmark and Hungary, so I don’t see why the UK couldn’t keep the pound. Participation in the common currency has always been entirely optional.

That’s not Moscow, too far north-west for that. Probably Veliky Novgorod or something around there.

Edit: Found this, the one right on the map edge is very likely Bologoye: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Nevsky_Express_bombing

Curiously “cake” apparently comes from old Norse “kaka”, which in many languages is the word for poo-poo, but is more probably related to roundness in this instance.

You don’t have to have blind devotion to something to be a fan of it.

Fan was originally short for fanatic, so it does actually imply blind devotion. Etymologically at least.