Literally it means: Greeting-Display-Control-Mechanism. In German you can jumble the words together to get a new, more precise German word. The most notorious being this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/100...

Or this: http://linguacuriosa.blogspot.com/2009/10/german-for-beginne...

Or this: http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/awfgrmlg.html

I remember my German teacher struggling to get the class to remember Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (admittedly two words). So she taught us Vierwaldstätterseedampfschiffgesellschaftskapitänsmützensternlein instead. After that Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte was easy.

Mother of god...

That would be Gottesmutter or (way better) Gottesgebärerin (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottesgeb%C3%A4rerin)

More like this is totally freaking Awesome...!

German for: Spend the best hours of the day on an orange website.

basically showWelcome()