According to bored and increasingly irritated sources currently sitting at lane 8 of Manchester Family Bowl, Nick Morwoods fourteenth birthday party has now dragged on into a fifth excruciating hour. Another game? You cant be serious, said Will Meaker, 12, noting with great annoyance that Morwood had just entered a set of new ridiculous nicknames into the computer. And we havent even done cake and gifts yet. Ugh, this is never going to end. At press time, a fed-up Meaker groaned as the party was extended further by an attendant who spent several minutes dislodging a pin with a broomstick. 