Some day, I will get through the entire day without posting anything featuring the word “underwear” – this is not that day

Frankie Boyle asks on Mock the Week, how big a bail-out, how much money do we have to give the banks before they stop chaining the pens up?

In Britain, prisoners of the pagan persuasion (there are 366 of them) are to be allowed to keep: a hoodless robe (to be used only, repeat only, during ceremonies), a twig to be used as a wand, incense, one piece of jewelry, rune stones, tarot cards which are not repeat not to be used to tell the fortunes of other prisoners and “only following a local risk assessment.” No naked worship. They can choose two holidays from work from the following options: Halloween, the midsummer solstice, the vernal equinox. They can use wine during worship – one sip only. Oh, the Times’s headline: “Privileges Ease Spell in Prison for Pagans.”

Today’s Headline of the Day features underwear for the second day in a row. Hmm. From the London Times: “Astronaut Koichi Wakata Didn’t Change Underwear for a Month.” Evidently, they’re special NASA underpants, or at least that’s what the guys in Mission Control told him in between barely suppressed snickers.

In other underwear news, here’s a guy who held up a BP station in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex using underwear as a mask.