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St. Totteringham's Day 

St. Totteringham's Day is the day celebrated by Arsenal F.C. fans when Tottenham Hotspur can no longer finish above Arsenal F.C. in the English Football League by virtue of not being able to catch their rivals, even if they win every remaining game.

Due to its very nature, St Totteringham's Day is moveable and can occur at varying times during the season based on the respective fortunes of Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal F.C..
In 2007 it is anticipated that St. Totteringham's Day will fall on Saturday 21st April when Arsenal F.C. travel to White Hart Lane; home of the Tottenham Hotspurds.
St. Totteringham's Day by Makams December 25, 2008

productivity throttling controls 

Security devices and configurations which inhibit or minimize employee productivity. Employee productivity may be impacted by limiting access to information, communication and computing functionality, as well as by limiting computing performance. Controls may block websites, may block communication channels such as IRC, may slow computing devices by using full-disk encryption, antivirus, and spyware, may break applications by performing man-in-the-middle attacks and by misconfiguring applications. For some employees, substantial effort may be expended to find workarounds to bypass controls.
Brenda: Why won’t IE open this site?
Tim: The productivity throttling controls are misconfigured to arbitrarily disable TLS connections in IE. Go into Tools and enable TLS connections.

The productivity throttling controls won’t allow Firefox to get a critical update that addresses a vulnerability. Now I need to download the update and manually install. What a waste of time.

My workstation is churning away because of having to scan the large email attachment that I received. Because of the productivity throttling controls, I am unable to even switch tabs in my web browser.

Bill: Websense is prohibiting me from downloading a library I need to complete this work.
Me: We’ll let customer wait another day for the deliverable while I bypass the productivity throttling controls by downloading the library at home tonight and supplying to you on a USB tomorrow.

Susan the Happy Trotting Elf 

Song about Susan Walker from British sitcom Coupling describing her.
Lyrics:

I'm Susan the happy trotting elf
I trot and trot and bounce and bounce
I smile a lot and that's what counts
I'm Susan, the happy trotting smile a lotting elf
I'm polite so just for clarity
When I'm cross, I say, "Apparent-LY!"
I'm Susan, the happy trotting smile a lotting elf

tweeter-tottering 

The action of going back and forth on the issue of getting a Twitter account. Debating internally whether or not to open a Twitter account.
"Man, I was totally tweeter-tottering after I read that great article about Twitter."

"Yeah bro, it makes me want to get a Twitter account really bad now. But on the other hand, is it worth it? Oh man, I just tweeter-tottered!"

*laughs all around, roll credits*
tweeter-tottering by B.W. Felix August 11, 2009

throttling 

Describes the intentional shipping and receiving delays imposed by the online DVD rental service NetFlix to limit their customer's maximum number of DVD rentals per month.
By delaying the shipment and denying the receipt of returned DVD's, NetFlix is able to limit (throttling) users to a maximum number of DVD's per month while advertising unlimited rentals. This practice has recently come to light with both a Class Action law suit and recent a recent AP story that ran nationally.
throttling by Rusty_R February 15, 2006

St. Totteringham's Day 

St Totteringham's Day is an event that has occurred every single year since the 1995-96 English Premier League season. Essentially, it is the day, usually happening in April or May, where it is mathematically impossible for Tottenham Hotspur (hence the name TOTTEringham) to finish higher in the league table than Arsenal - their North London rivals.
In the 2015-16 season, Arsenal shockingly passed Spurs on the last day of the season to finish 2nd. Thus, their fans celebrated St. Totteringham's Day.