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Weird BUT true

- Eileen AJ Connelly, Wires

Don’t call it a Stinky Stout.

San Diego’s Stone Brewing has unveiled a beer called Full Circle that’s made with treated sewage water.

Chief Operating Officer Pat Tiernan said the purified recycled water is actually better than what the brewery uses now. “It’s a very clean-tasting beer,” he said.

The “most interestin­g man in the world” has turned his attention from beer to beards.

Former Dos Equis pitchman Jonathan Goldsmith was one of four judges at a competitio­n Saturday called Vermont Beardies to benefit Make-a-Wish Vermont.

The event had three categories: urban beard, freestyle and backwoods, and required each contestant to tell an interestin­g story about his facial hair.

Jimi Hendrix’s family is having a bad experience.

Brother Leon Hendrix and his Purple Haze Properties was sued by his sister, Janie, in a trademark dispute after he launched a line of novelty merchandis­e including Hey Joe Merlot and Wammy Bar marijuana ice cream edibles.

Janie and other family members own all Jimi-related rights. Leon was booted from the family business in 2002.

A cleric in Sicily has refused an offer from the Mafia.

Archbishop Michele Pennisi has banned gangsters from taking the role of “godfather” at baptisms, aiming to take away the “air of religious respectabi­lity” it gives crime bosses.

Russian police corralled an alien who frightened salespeopl­e in a grocery store in Ufa.

The creature turned out to be a visitor — but not from another planet.

It was actually a member of a television crew in an alien suit. The crew was filming an episode of a TV show that involves inspecting food stores and assessing their services.

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