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  • Cindy Perman

      News Editor at CNBC.com and the author of The Pony Blog (ponyblog.cnbc.com). She has also written a book, “New York Curiosities,” and does stand-up comedy.

  • Jane Wells

      CNBC business news reporter, based in Los Angeles, covering the defense and technology industries. She writes the CNBC.com blog Funny Business.

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The news can get a little heavy sometimes, with debt crises, vicious markets and crappy earnings reports. So, we dispatched our crack reporters, Cindy Perman and Jane Wells, to find some levity amid all this seriousness. May we offer you a Keynesian cocktail with a side of bacon?

Why a Pony? To be clear, there were no ponies harmed in the making of this blog. The blog’s name, “There Must Be a Pony In Here Somewhere,” comes from an old joke, a favorite of Ronald Reagan’s, that essentially means, with a pile of you-know-what this big, there MUST be a pony—a bright side—in here somewhere!

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Motorized Chair Formerly Known as La-Z-Boy Sells for $11,000

Published: Friday, 6 Nov 2009 | 3:23 PM ET
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By: Cindy Perman
CNBC.com Staff Writer

What’s in a name?

Source: eBay.com
This chair offers a lesson in drinking while intoxicated — as well as a lesson in branding!

They found out in Proctor, Minn., this week.

A motorized recliner chair that was seized by police after its owner was busted for drunk driving sold for just $10,099.99 on eBay [EBAY  Loading...      ()   ] after La-Z-Boy made them stop calling it a motorized La-Z-Boy.

(Read the story about the flap with La-Z-Boy and the post about the original auction.)

With the La-Z-Boy name, bidding in the first auction had topped $43,000.

The proceeds are going to the Proctor police department, which has been hard hit by budget cuts.

The headline on the Proctor Journal story sums up the town’s response: “La-Z-Boy costs Proctor $33,000.”

Oh, and the cushion for the chair that's being auctioned separately by its former owner who conveniently lost it when police arrived? Yeah, bidding is up to $1,000. That auction expires at 7:30pm tonight.

Only in Proctor, kids. Only in Proctor.

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