I don't know how genuine this is, but it's amusing. An employee emails her boss, hinting at a pay raise by writing every instance of the letter S as a dollar sign. Her employer cleverly declines in reply by highlighting the letters NO in every word.

Dear Bo$$,

In thi$ life, we all need $ome thing mo$t de$perately. I think you $hould be under$tanding of the need$ of u$ worker$ who have given $o much $upport, including $weat and $ervice to your company.

I am $ure you will gue$$ what I mean and re$pond $oon.

Your$ $incerely,
Marian $hih

Dear Marian,

I kNOw you have been working very hard. NOwadays, NOthing much has changed. You must have NOticed that our company is NOt doing NOticeably well as yet.

NOw the newspaper are saying the world's leading ecoNOmists are NOt sure if the United States may go into aNOther recession. After the NOvember presidential elections, things may turn bad.

I have NOthing more to add NOw. You kNOw what I mean.

Yours truly,
Manager

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Neither email speaks explicitly - they merely hint at or imply - but the letters literally spell out the intended meaning: "I am $ure you will gue$$ what I mean." "I have NOthing more to add NOw." The last sentence has double meaning: I have nothing more to write and I have nothing more to add to your salary.

You often see the dollar sign in the word Micro$oft - it's a way of graffiti-ing the company name and snubbing the richest man on earth. If you Google the word micro$oft, you'll see nearly 2 million search results. Understandably, when you use Live.com (Microsoft's search engine), you only see some 160,000 results along with the helpful "Were you looking for microsoft?"