Give me a break. There are pitfalls when one is in tall weeds trying to determine the origin of expressions. I’m “old school,” still delighting in reading newspaper comics. A recent Bizarro panel from the fertile mind of cartoonist Dan Piraro struck a chord. (I tend to communicate best at a fourth-grade level, so I miss the point of many Piraro cartoons. The ones I “catch” are reasons enough to keep an eye out for Bizarro.) A recent panel showed a pirate interview: “Theater was my first love, but I gave it up for piracy when I became tired of all the ...