Any member of an internet message board who is contributing unsolicited and unappreciated posts to another member's thread with the unintended result of "bumping" the thread to the top of the list of threads each time and thereby keeping the thread current and potentially popular.
"Man it really annoys me when he replies to my threads. I wish he'd go bother someone else. Oh well, at least I get bumped to the top everytime he does. He probably doesn't even realize he's my bumpmonkey."
A toe rag was originally a foot wrapping used, since mediaeval times up until the mid-nineteenth century, to protect the foot from chafing by boots or shoes. As these were, quite literally, rags they weren’t usually washed, and so with use they became very smelly until they were thrown away. Because of the similarity in smell, toe rag also became the name applied to dried, salted cod or other things with a strong, unpleasant, fishy smell. It didn’t take that long before the name was applied to someone who was an obnoxious, unpleasant OIC.
1 “Socks! Those aren’t socks you smelly git, they’re toe rags!”
2 “What have you been cooking? Smells like toe rag!”
3 “I can smell ‘er fanny from ‘ere, proper toe rag.”
4 That Heale Malcolm is a right toe rag.