Maybe It's a Cultural Thing...

Regular EADJ readers may remember a January 7 entry where we found some weird framed signs in a restaurant toilet. It looked like this:


Which is fine, but something I thought was an isolated incident. Nope.

Found elsewhere in Brooklyn:


And in Manhattan:


Somehow a warning against throwing paper in the toilet warrants a stylish wooden frame in these parts. Am I in some alternate 'I Love Country' universe or something? What are your theories?