Galmeida was reviewing the deliverables from their offshore outsourcing partner and noticed a very strange pattern throughout the code. I usually able to come up with some stretch of an explanation for why a programmer did what he did, but I'm a total loss this time .... any ideas? 

public class DocumentBO {

  /**
   * Returns the class instance
   * @return DocumentBO the class instance
   */
  public DocumentBO getSelf() {
    return this;
  }

  //ED: Snip
  public void forwardDocumentCopy() throws DocumentException {

    if (this.getSelf().getUser() != null) {
        responsible = this.getSelf().getUser().getUsername();
    }

    this.getSelf().setDescription( 
      this.getSelf().getConstants().getForwardHeader
      + this.getSelf().getDescription());

    compositeDocument.setSubject(  
      this.getConstants().getForwardSubject
      + this.getSubject());

    //ED: Snip
  }

  //ED: Snip
}

public class TaskList {

    /**
     * Adds a Document to TaskList
     * @param DocumentBO
     */
    public void addNonPersistentDocumentBO(DocumentBO doc) {
        Documents.add(doc.getSelf());
    }

    //ED: Snip
}

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