Please help me out with something?

[Claire]

So, I just got voted recording secretary in one of the clubs I'm in, and basically my only responsibility is to take the minutes down during the meetings and then email them to everyone afterwards (how I am going to keep up with the typing with a broken arm has yet to be determined). I want to add in jokes, riddles and fun links to the minutes to make them more fun to read and less like a chore. Got anything? I'm pretty much the least creative person in the world so any other suggestions on how to make them more interesting would be amazing.

[eriador]

I think I'll let someone else have a go at that one... I'm bad at determining what's appropriate.

[Jayelle]

What kind of a club is it? That might help in pointing you towards fun things that are on topic.
What I might do is pick random words from the minutes and google them, finding a game or a wiki article related to that word.

[Syphon the Sun]

Rickroll and Bel Air them.

[Boothby]

Years and years ago, when I was recording secretary for my college dorm (I used a TYPEWRITER!), I wrote the weekly minutes in the form of a story--a new genre each week, and all the participants were characters in the story.

Throughout the tale, all the information that I had to present got presented, but in an amusing and interesting format.

I knew it was a successful approach, because people would take the minutes down a day or so after I posted them on the dorm-room walls, and save them (yes, they saved them--I asked)!

And it also kept me from going stir-crazy having to write all those minutes.

Be careful, though. I wound up making fun of the dorm VP (I made his character the butt of a number of jokes one week), and he didn't speak to me for over a month. Actually...now that I think of it, I remember that as being a GOOD thing!

[Jayelle]

Years and years ago, when I was recording secretary for my college dorm (I used a TYPEWRITER!)

Did you ride a dinosaur to school too?

[Boothby]

Silly! Dinosaurs and typewriters were NOT cotemporaneous!

My PARENTS rode dinosaurs to school!

[jotabe]

Wait wait wait
do you mean there was a time when there wasn't *gasp* computers? Not even internet?

How the hell did people write by then???? How did they ever find information????????

[Qing_Jao]

We went to the library. And made notecards. And we liked it!!
Ok. Nuff said. I didn't get into computers until my senior year in highschool.
At least more than ogling them from afar.

[Luet]

I used microfiche in my highschool library all the time for research papers! Wow, searching microfiche sucked. We did have computers and I used them for typing said papers but the internet was not really much yet in the early 90s. I even wrote one of my hs papers on OSC. The topic was "Does the end justify the means?" and how that related to both EG and Xeno.

[Boothby]

Well, I was using GWBASIC on an acoustic modem link to the BOCES computer in junior year HS.

You know you're a geek when you can sing to the acoustic modem and hit the tone for an ampersand 4 times out of five.

Micro-fiche! How...modern! WE had to use micro-FILM!