Microlawns.

Rare shot of an original Keep Off The Grass sign, possibly from across the pond judging by the Gill Sans-ian typography. All microlawns small enough to earn the exclusive title once featured such snooty warnings, until the garden gnomes willed themselves tall enough to uproot every last one of them in a 60-day rage against income inequality between the swarthy and the “lankies,” presaging today’s #OWS by centuries.

Unwittingly submitted by ecco via Metafilter.