A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago

WAVE FOR CATFISH; SCREAM FOR RIBS: You have to admire the blogger over at Phat Phree who combed YouTube to compile what he is calling the 50 Greatest Local TV Commercials (I would argue No. 50 belongs in the top 5, at least), but speaking from a strictly Chicago standpoint, he missed some classics including easily the greatest local spot ever filmed. And while Chicago does get some deserving mentions for Empire Carpets (go ahead, I'll wait, 5-8-8 2-300...Empiiiire. Here's some background on the Empire Carpet guy) and Victory Auto Wreckers, but where is Aronson Furniture (Home of the Credit Connection), Bert Weinman Ford (Linn Burton, for certain), Lincoln Carpet (sadly you don't get the whole jingle, but kudos to the parodying Dragnet all the way to the end credit and was Lincoln the last company in America using the two-letter telephone prefix, in its case NAtional 2-9000?), Shelley Long's pre-Diane roll as the Homemaker's Furniture spokeswoman ("not low-priced furniture, but good furniture at low prices"), the Long Subaru (nee Chevrolet) newsboy, Harry Schmerler (Your Singing Ford Dealer), and Celozzi-Ettleson ("Where you always save more money").