Phil Newell, an American in Taiwan to study Chinese, sheepishly answers a friend's question about his birth sign, saying: "Mine is the really unappealing one--the pig!"
來台學中文的美國人倪凱駿就在朋友問他出生年次時，靦腆地表示：「我的生肖是很不迷人的那一種﹘ ﹘豬！」