A man is sitting at a table with his hand on a phone. There is a vulture perched in front of him.
A vulture is an unusual bird to have indoors.
Why does he have a vulture?
Janice, hold all my calls. Indefinitely.
scene: a business office description: A man is sitting at a table with his hand on a phone. There is a vulture perched in front of him. uncanny: A vulture is an unusual bird to have indoors. entities: Businessperson, Vulture, Speakerphone. caption: Janice, hold all my calls. Indefinitely.
A vulture often circles over a nearly dead animal in the wild to scavenge its corpse for food. The joke here is that, the vulture has identified the man as someone about to die, and, surprisingly, he also agrees: he nonchalantly tells his secretary to hold his calls/work forever, because he's about to die. He doesn't seem to care that he's about to die, and instead focuses on his benign work obligations, which is funny.