Another code snippet of the day

Today's a good day. Check this out:

private static Dictionary<string, string> _dict = new Dictionary<string, string>();

static MyPage()
{
    //_dict.Add("item1", "val1");
    //_dict.Add("item2", "val2");
    //_dict.Add("item3", "val3");
    //_dict.Add("item4", "val4");
}

private void InitDictionary()
{
    try
    {
        _dict.Add("item1", "val1");
        _dict.Add("item2", "val2");
        _dict.Add("item3", "val3");
        _dict.Add("item4", "val4");
    }//END TRY
    catch
    {
        _dict.Clear();
        _dict.Add("item1", "val1");
        _dict.Add("item2", "val2");
        _dict.Add("item3", "val3");
        _dict.Add("item4", "val4");
    }//END CATCH
}

So what happened here? The guy decided that initializing the static dictionary variable in the static constructor wasn't good enough, and that he needed to do it on every page request, so he created an instance method to do the initialization. For some reason, though, he kept getting an exception when initializing the dictionary after the first page view. Hmm... bettter just swallow the exception, clear the dictionary, and try again.

*slaps forehead*