""Betty Swollox has signed an affidavit to the effect that you were there. I wouldn't worry though, the local bench all say they know her. Which is better in tense terms than the biblical they knew her. (Do you think our truth book can have euphemisms like that? )""

Of course it can! It isn't called the "Yebbut" for nothing.

It would handle the BS Affidavit by stating ""Yebbut: everybody knows she's a bloody liar""

Don T.