Written by
何迟 and performed by
马三立. A careless clerk named
马大哈 writes an order for fifty monkeys instead of fifty crates of Monkey-brand soap, and a buyer goes off to hunt for real monkeys. The clerk's name, made from
马马虎虎,
大大咧咧 and
嘻嘻哈哈, became the everyday word for a scatterbrain.
