The Elevations of the Danube

When meeting a French, any respectable Romanian will tell the story about how, when they were kids,  they used to listen to the radio the show about the elevations of the Danube. Of course, the story will go on by trying to spell the numbers in French and ending it with 'gheață la mal' (translation from Romanian - frozen riverbank). 

(Explanation - the elevations of the Danube were uttered in Romanian, French and Russian on the Romanian National Radio. The funny thing about the French part of the show was that the speaker always said the numbers in French, but the utterance about the frost was always said in Romanian).

Of course, my husband was bound to hear about this. And it seems that the story made quite an impact on him because he was the one that took the picture below.