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I can be thin but not fat; in your body but never on your placemat. I'm always better when I'm fresh but you'll never see me in the flesh.
My first is high my second damp my whole a tie a writer's cramp.
What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
I go from house to house a messenger small and tight. Whether it rains or snows I sleep outside at night.
A hundred arms, a thousand fingers, but I have no eyes to see where I linger. What am I?
The answer I give is yes, but what I mean is no. What was the question?