The development of the curse began during the Paleolithic Era (2.6 million years ago) at the same time man started to use tools. The first documented curse was found in a cave painting, portraying the story of when a Mr. Oog hit his thumb trying to hammer a nail in an attempt to place the first ever framed picture of a bowl of fruit over a mantelpiece. Although undeveloped language wise, Mr Oog made a series of impressive vowel and consonant combinations perfectly describing his pain and frustration to the ear-wigging villagers, hovering outside his semi-detached cave. Soon, the entire village found themselves able to clearly communicate what they really thought of each other, and a way to tell irritating tribe members to "go away in short jerky movements", rather than having to revert to