WSJ story Tuesday, vaguely sourced by plausible, tells us that the London Whale, Bruno Iksil, "once confided" to a certain colleague, "that when he wanted to avoid questions from supervisors about his trades, he sometimes would start discussing a mathematical term, equation, or other technical jargon, to confuse and end the conversation." He'd get free rein/reign because his bosses were afraid of hearing his explanation of the analytical expression of a Lévy distribution one more time? Aaaaah.