"Have you ever heard of 'pronoid'?" — I ask.

Meade says: "I've heard of 'noid.'"I say: "What is that, some R. Crumb thing?"Meade says, yes, and I look it up. I'm surprised. How could we both independently think "Noid" was an R. Crumb character and it not be true? "No, 'The Noid' was a character in old Domino's Pizza ads" — I say.The slogan was "Avoid the Noid." In 1989, a man named Kenneth Lamar Noid, who believed the character had to do