i always thought leather straps and stuff.

That is a pretty good question. I mean, it's hard enough to jib your yardarm to the aft poop deck mizen mast with real hands, imagine how hard it would be with a hook!

Maybe the internets will tell us the answer.

Parrot ligaments.

Take a look here: University of Iowa Medical Museum. The first figure, a 16th century artificial leg, suggests the use of leather straps.

It's not often I get to read sentence that begin like this: "In 1800, James Potts designed his famous wooden 'Anglesey leg'..."

This is also somewhat helpful.

Yarrrr. I'm getting a pet bird soon, who's bound to end up spending a fair amount of time of my shoulder, and I'm wondering if I should make the transition to pirate. How much does a hook cost? Would there be undue chafing?

One does not buy a pirate hook Specklet, one loses one's hand in ship-to-ship combat, and a hook is later fitted by the churgeon when you next put in to port.

This is covered by your pirate insurance

So shipboard one night, after a bit of rum, a young boatswain works up his courage and says "Captain, how is it that you came to loose your leg what you got a peg there now?" "Well Dobbs" (for, you see, the Captain never bothered to leard the boatswain's names, and called them all Dobbs) "It was when we was offloading booty from an English friggate, one of the crew broke loose his bonds and managed to knock our boarding plank, with me on it, in to the water! The sharks came then, and I managed to fight them off, but not before one of them took me leg!"

The next night, another member of the crew asked him "Captain, how did you get your hook?" "Well now there's a tale Dobbs. It was on the Isle of Skulls, and we had just uncovered Captain Perk's treasure when the crew of the pirate ship Plunder descended upon us. We fought them back in to the jungle and we woulda won the day had not we disturbed a whole cave full of panthers! In the heat of battle one of them got close enought to take my hand clean off, but she's a rug on my quarter's deck now"

"How is it that you lost your eye" the Captain was asked the following night. "A seagull pooped in it Dobbs." "And that cost you your eye?" "Well, no, but it was the first week after I got the hook see..."

Oh, see, I've already lost my hand in combat, Capn. I just didn't get a hook because I don't have my pirate's license yet.

By the way, I have a fake front tooth, and I'm hoping I can go with that instead of the mandatory half-blind thing.

Aye, you'll do, we can hide our treasure maps in yer wooden tooth.

Who else on this poxy shore be lookin' to sign up with the Capn's crew?

did they close the working pirate store?
damn and blast

Capn, sirrah, Oi seems tee 'ave strung meseln up byder yardarm an' Oi'm 'arvin' a wee bit'o'trooble widder breavin'.

Arrr, Oi canna get doon on me own. 'Alp!

Excelent! This Hugh Janus shall be our new figurehead!

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I had no idea you had such nice boobs

Hugh, that transcripted accent is hilarious.

If you can do a good spoken Scottish accent, I may be introuble.

I think I just invented a new word: introuble.

I can do a good Scottish accent: "Look at me! I'm cheap and like deep fried foods! I pretend to like to sound of bagpipes to piss of the English!"

Q: How d'ye tell a Geordie?

A: Divvent. He canna be telt.