''MEALY MOUTH!"

When my high school geometry teacher called a girl in my class that, I nearly went off on her. The teacher not the girl. I liked the girl. And felt so sorry for her. I still don't know what a mealy mouth is, but I didn't think Susan Montfort was one.

In context, I suppose she meant for Susan to speak up. The teacher was that way. Most of us weren't geometricians in that first hour class and theorems were puzzling to us, so we didn't have a lot of confidence when giving our answers. At least Susan, Nancy Barrett, Donovan Felty, and me.

But I'm right there with my geometry teacher now when I'm watching movies or tv shows. The actors don't enunciate. They don't speak up. Oh, some actors like James Dean and Marlin Brando could pull it off. But most can't, and I shouldn't have to wonder what the heck they're saying when they simply mumble their words.

I honestly thought I had turned to the Spanish channel the other evening when we were watching a movie. It's channel 212 or so, and in my haste to find something, anything to watch, I'd flipped to a movie that I get on our tier simply because I want some sports channels and they are included with the package. But with not a lot going on in sports right now, I was stuck with Raymond or Oprah or NCIS or SINC or something like that or movies. And I couldn't understand one word of dialogue. Maybe I should have been on the Spanish channel: at least, I could pick up casa or enconocerlo or something I know.

Mealy mouths of the world unite. And take more geometry classes and fewer theatre and acting ones.