How many of those pirate people actually bought bitcoins just to take part of the pirate thing ... I would say its more likely that people already in bitcoins jumped on the pirate thing in which case I doubt the reaction of the sell off would be that much
Yeah I agree, I speculate that a sell off will come if the price for what ever reason drops a bit, especially now after everyone got spooked a bit with the latest pop of a bubble and the pirate uncertainty looming over everyone's heads.