Is this a very old joke?
A Greek lands on a beautiful uninhabited island and writes a poem about it.
A Roman finds another beautiful island devoid of people and he builds a statue to himself there.
A Celt finds yet a third island with no people and starts a fight.
**I just thought of a variant:**
Instead of building a statue the Roman conquers the uninhabited island.
But perhaps the original joke implies that -- maybe when Rome conquered a place it erected statues to the general who did th…