Tar and cotton him,said a student from the college, more facetiously, perhaps, more mercifully inclined. Think, fellows, what a pretty bird he will be, with cotton for feathers ; — so downy."

A pinch of salt in this dish wouldn't go astray.

Any gene that behaves in such a way as to increase its own survival chances in the gene pool at the expense of its alleles will, by definition, tautologously, tend to survive.

The 1970s TV show M*A*S*H had a long afterlife in syndication.