This is driving me nuts

[amberica]

What is up with the translucent green visor that old-timey accountants wore, and poker dealers (who were once accountant/money-handlers) still sometimes wear?

WHY can't I find the answer to this?

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[simtras.livejournal.com]

Having worked as a cashier at C10, in front of those giant windows, with the low-sitting winter sun blazing you right in the face all day long, I can sympathize. I don't think old timey accountants were subject to these conditions, though. I read this message board: http://hacks.joystiq.com/2006/02/17/nvidia-drops-clues-on-ps3-launch-date-not-spring/
and got a hint: ". . . never trust an engineer with finances. Thats why engineers wear white lab coats and us accountants wear green visors and have green thumbs from counting all our damn money...revenue recognition is one of the first principles you will learn if you study business or accounting.never trust an engineer with finances. Thats why engineers wear white lab coats and us accountants wear green visors and have green thumbs from counting all our damn money...revenue recognition is one of the first principles you will learn if you study business or accounting."

[mouse-gerald.livejournal.com]

Looks like these days its use is mostly traditional.

[amberica.livejournal.com]

Yes dear, I know that. What I want to know is the ORIGIN of that tradition! ;)

[mouse-gerald.livejournal.com]

Did you follow the link?

"The visor must be a legacy of the Wild West days like everything American where Americans were portrayed with long hair tied with bands to the forehead."

[amberica.livejournal.com]

I did, but what I don't understand is how this has anything to do with accounting, or why the visors had to be green!

it's to stop the glare from overhead lights

[lazysoftrain.livejournal.com]

while still allowing really good bright lights for TINY little ledgers.

It was green to add a shadeing to the old nasty gaslights and then the first electric.

Re: it's to stop the glare from overhead lights

[amberica.livejournal.com]

INGA! ALL HAIL MY NEW GODDESS!!! We shall have a holiday to commemorate your brilliance, and a star shall be named for you. Woo-hoo!! :D

tongue in cheek

[lazysoftrain.livejournal.com]

awesome.

it's good to feel needed.

that's all the gods want, you know. Not bothered with "oh my god, I have a hangnail" but we like "why do people wear little green visors."

When I was hanging out with Yahwah the other day, that's what she said, too.