The word was coined in the June 2001 Freepathon by Freeper 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember:
"funkle - when you've discovered you are talking to yourself on a thread and the last 5 replies are from YOU!"
It is posted at #145 on the 2nd Edition Lexicon thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a1fed9e6421.htm#145
2ndMost also coined "funklus terminus": The last post on a thread. (Note: This is for Gabz, LOL)
Funklus terminus was posted by blam at #146 on the Lexicon Thread.
In the September 2001 Freepathon, the late 1John posted the "Rules for Funkeling" that we use today.
I know you sent that info to queenkathy but I didn't know that stuff either, so thanx---
I just HATE being the last poster on a thread---I have become paranoid thinking that whenever other posters on a thread see my screen name, they run as fast as they can to another thread.
Then, if I go to another thread and see someone's name from the thread I came up last in, I am afraid to post because they might leave again.
There actually is a name for it? Kewl!!!
Gee thanks!!!!!!!!