"clever" (= skillful, adroit)

[Grant Barrett]

On 7/3/02 18:42, "RonButters at AOL.COM" <RonButters at AOL.COM> wrote:

> In a message dated 7/3/02 3:57:15 PM, stevekl at PANIX.COM writes:
>
> << On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>
>> There is a slang sense of CLEVER that means 'sexually attractive'. Or at
>> least there used to be, in American gay lingo.
>>
>> Is that still current?
>
> I'm afraid it's generational or regional -- I've never heard it used that
> way in a queer context.
>
> -- Steve Kl. >>
>
> To be more exact, as I recall, "clever" meant 'sexually attractive' only when
> used of males and then only when combined with the words "number" or
> "trick"--i.e., a "clever number" was a sexy guy. I can't say if it was
> confined only to (parts of) the South, but my guess is that it is now archaic.

I wonder if there's any connection with the phrase  "Whatever's Clever" used
in the sexual invitation ads in the back of alternative papers such as New
York Press.

http://www.tpigroup.com/nyvariations/WC0.html