# Old conductors trick or not?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-conductors-trick-or-not/21375>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 4, 2000, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-conductors-trick-or-not/21375 "2000-06-04T17:48:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![wolfseyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/97f17d/32.png) [@wolfseyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfseyn)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2000, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-conductors-trick-or-not/21375/1 "2000-06-04T17:48:38Z")

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Remember this from the Seinfeld episode entitled “The Doll”?

Kramer and Frank Costanza are in Bob Cobb’s (Maestro) Office  
The Maestro doesn’t have pants on so Kramer and Frank are confused.  
Maestro: Ohh, my pants. (Begins putting on a near-by pair of pants) It’s an old conductor’s trick I learned from Leonard Bernstein.

Kramer: Really

Maestro: You keep a perfect crease by not sitting in them before the performance.

## Kramer: That’s good thinking!

Is this really a Leonard Bernstein thing?  
Or is Bob Cobb full of it?

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-conductors-trick-or-not/21375/2 "2000-06-05T01:14:35Z")

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So you really take every line in a comedy show literally?

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**Author:** ![aschrott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aca169/32.png) [@aschrott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aschrott)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-conductors-trick-or-not/21375/3 "2000-06-05T03:31:42Z")

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If you’d ever had the pleasure of meeting Leonard Bernstein, you would know that the very last thing on his mind–ever–was the crease in his pants.

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**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2000, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-conductors-trick-or-not/21375/4 "2000-06-05T04:39:34Z")

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You met Leonard Bernstein? What was he like in person?