In the Corner yesterday, I published a letter from a reader whose four-year-old son was hearing about the Toyota recall on the news. He asked his dad, “Why do they keep talking about toy Yodas?” This fellow is a Star Wars fan. A reader now writes me that the confusion of “Toyota’ and “toy Yoda” has a resonance in American history — stretching back to May 2002. Do you recall reading this story? “A former waitress has settled her lawsuit against Hooters, the restaurant that gave her a toy Yoda doll instead of the Toyota she thought she had won.”

Sometimes I really get a kick out of America. You know?