# I said the right thing to Dave Foley ;-) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592 "2012-03-23T12:38:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/1 "2012-03-23T12:38:25Z")
I was waiting to board a plane, looked over and, hey, there’s Dave Foley\*. He looks a bit different from his heyday, but easy enough to pick out. I tend to drive past car accidents with eyes straight ahead and not fangush when I see someone famous. So I didn’t do anything. Turns out he is in Economy, like me, and apparently in a later boarding group, like me. As they finish with Group 3, with one or two straggling 3’s left, I kinda say to myself with him in earshot “Hmm, should we go ahead?” And he replies “I dunno - do you think we can take her?” referring to the boarding pass taker, a small, oldish woman. I turned to him and said “but if ALL the ants join together, we can defeat our boarding pass overloards!” He laughed and said “cool…one of the best things I’ve been able to be part of” It was a nice, fun exchange. –\> Beyond that, he said he was coming back from recording his part in the Monsters, Inc. sequel - he is half of a two-headed monster with Sean Hayes. Very nice guy\*. \*ETA: if you aren’t sure who he is - he is the comedian who was in the comedy team Kids in the Hall, starred in the TV show NewsRadio with Phil Hartman, and was the voice of Flik the Ant in the Pixar movie, A Bug’s Life, which is where I paraphrased my silly quip from… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/2 "2012-03-23T12:43:46Z")
Very cool, very cool. Is that exchange from Bug’s Life or something, then? ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/3 "2012-03-23T12:44:10Z")
Awesome story. I was a big fan of the Kids In The Hall back in the 1990s (still am), meeting him in person by accident and chatting would be quite a thrill! In fact chances are good that I would have had a KitH episode or two on my iPhone. I like to think I would have played it cool and just started watching the KitH on my phone in a way that he could notice I was doing so… Then go on to exaggeratedly (and silently) glance over at him as if to express, _“No… Couldn’t be…”_ in as Kevin McDonald a way as possible 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/4 "2012-03-23T12:45:58Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Very cool, very cool. Is that exchange from Bug’s Life or something, then? No clue about the exact words, but in the climactic scene, his character along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ ant Queen stand up to Kevin Spacey’s grasshoppers by getting the whole ant hive to rise up and work together, using an inspirational speech… ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/5 "2012-03-23T12:53:31Z")
Congratulations! I’d never manage to get the line out right in that situation. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/6 "2012-03-23T12:54:45Z")
> [@chrisk](#): > > Congratulations! I’d never manage to get the line out right in that situation. I know, right? That’s what I am still chuckling over - it happened the way it was supposed to! That never happens for me. ---
**Author:** ![Valerieblaise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Valerieblaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valerieblaise)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/7 "2012-03-23T13:13:53Z")
Awww… I love Dave Foley so much that I’m glad you made him laugh. Good work! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/8 "2012-03-23T13:15:38Z")
Way cool! I’ve been rewatching a lot of Kids in the Hall sketches lately. I’m also a huge fan of the animated show Dan Vs. (Dave Foley voice acts on that show). ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/9 "2012-03-23T13:18:57Z")
I fear I would have been tempted to crush his head. I’m not nearly as cool as you are. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/10 "2012-03-23T13:20:07Z")
> [@StuffLikeThatThere](#): > > I fear I would have been tempted to crush his head. I’m not nearly as cool as you are. 🙂 Yeah…not sure how that might’ve gone over with him. I’m…gonna go stand over \*there \*now. ::shuffles away unobtrusively:: 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![StuffLikeThatThere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc8723/32.png) [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/11 "2012-03-23T13:23:47Z")
Ha! Don’t worry, I live in the boonies and I never run into famous people. They’re safe. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/12 "2012-03-23T13:26:09Z")
That dude has been through the ringer. I heard him interviewed on a few different podcasts, Marin’s WTF and someother one - maybe Fitzdog Radio or Rogan - telling all about this horrible divorce he went through that’s pretty much made it impossible to earn any sort of decent living. His expenses to his ex are in the millions. And at one point, he said that he couldn’t even step foot in Canada without being arrested as a deadbeat. But, such a cool guy, and, although bitter, I’m sure, he spoke of his ills with great wit and humor. Yeah. I’m a fan. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/13 "2012-03-23T13:28:57Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > That dude has been through the ringer. I heard him interviewed on a few different podcasts, Marin’s WTF and someother one - maybe Fitzdog Radio or Rogan - telling all about this horrible divorce he went through that’s pretty much made it impossible to earn any sort of decent living. His expenses to his ex are in the millions. And at one point, he said that he couldn’t even step foot in Canada without being arrested as a deadbeat. > > But, such a cool guy, and, although bitter, I’m sure, he spoke of his ills with great wit and humor. > > Yeah. I’m a fan. Wow, interesting. Didn’t know that. He asked where I was from; I replied and then said “you’re Canadian, right?” and he said “yeah - _ **Tarahna** _” hitting the word Toronto hard with a local accent. It was funny. ---
**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/14 "2012-03-23T13:35:25Z")
His alimony and child support payments are 400 percent of his current income. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/15 "2012-03-23T13:36:54Z")
> [@LionelHutz405](#): > > His alimony and child support payments are 400 percent of his current income. Jeez!! How does something like \*that \*work?! ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/16 "2012-03-23T13:38:34Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Jeez!! How does something like \*that \*work?! Exchange rate maybe? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/17 "2012-03-23T13:39:37Z")
> [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > Exchange rate maybe? 😉 I am assuming his income was pegged high while he was peaking with Bug’s Life and other stuff, and now he isn’t making nearly as much…just a guess. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/18 "2012-03-23T13:40:12Z")
I was always disappointed in him as the “color man” on _Celebrity Poker Showdown_. He’s a great comedic actor and a really nice guy, but he’s not the type of quick-wit comedian for that sort of thing and it just didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/19 "2012-03-23T13:42:12Z")
The amount is based on his income at the time. It’s high because he was making a lot of money then. There is no adjustment for a decrease in his income. He is still expected to pay based on an income he no longer has. Men go to jail as ‘dead beat dads’ for this. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592/20 "2012-03-23T13:44:19Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > 😉 I am assuming his income was pegged high while he was peaking with Bug’s Life and other stuff, and now he isn’t making nearly as much…just a guess. Yeah I heard that same interview and that’s pretty much it. The divorce came at the worst possible time, when he was at his earning peak, and I believe a large chunk of that money is for child support, and he got hit with that “accustomed lifestyle” bullshit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-said-the-right-thing-to-dave-foley/616592.md?page=2)