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Is this a question of everybody tried and couldn't work it out or nobody tried at all? If it's the former I'll give you a hint.
For newcomers, you are invited to Name That Tune from the lyrics transformed into a code snippet.
If Persons.Count = 1 Then
Northampton.BackColor = Color.Black
Leominster.BackColor = Color.Black
Bedford.BackColor = Color.Black
End If
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
modified 21-May-16 17:51pm.
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Well it ain't "Please Come To Boston" or "I Love That Dirty Water".
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It isn't, but Boston is a good place to be thinking about!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Yes. And I see that even the Bee Gees have a song about my home state, which seems a bit absurd. However, this must be about the big power outage in the northeast (in the 50s? Ah, I see, 1965, about a month before I was born). I'm unfamiliar with it though.
I see that Tom Paxton wrote such a song, but I'm not finding lyrics or anything.
modified 21-May-16 14:06pm.
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Bee Gees, huh? Would that be ...
And the lights all went out in Massachusetts
The day I left her standing on her own
... perhaps? Cos it's the right answer, obviously.
The Tom Paxton song is about the New York blackout (unless Central Park has moved?)
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Never heard of the Bee Gees' song until I went looking this morning, and your clue doesn't seem to relate to it.
9082365 wrote: about the New York blackout
It was one blackout across the northeast.
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No 1 in UK, 11 in US. Famous enough for the game I would have thought. I gave you the lines in the song which are relevant so I'm not quite sure how the clue doesn't relate to that, being a number of places in MA that go dark when a person (she) is left all alone.
I am aware that the blackout, which the Bee Gees song is nothing to do with by the way, was across a much broader area but the Tom Paxton song does refer specifically to Central Park and generally to New York so it would have been odd to clue that with places in Massachussets to say the least.
I guess I'll be doing next week's as well then? Nah worries, mate.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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The towns you mention are not mentioned in the song. Your clues require too much familiarity with Massachusetts and the blackout, and even I didn't think of Massachusetts first. Then, being familiar with Massachusetts, I assumed it was about western Mass, not the whole state nor the entire northeast.
I had also never heard of the song (which is fine), but once I saw the lyrics I saw no connection to the clues -- I still see no way you could expect the average Code Projector to get to that song from that clue.
Furthermore, I doubt there is a reasonable clue that would lead to that song -- bad song choice.
But maybe that's just me.
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Well, gee, don't hold back. Tell me how you really feel! 
I'll try not to assume that CPers are intelligent, cultured, knowledgeable people capable of lateral thinking in future! Though, if I get stick for making it too easy like the previous one that was answered in 30 seconds, I'm blaming you!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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It seems to me (and I didn't start the thing, so I'm not the ultimate arbiter) that solving the puzzle should require only a familiarity with the song, not with geography and local history.
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Is this related to pixies at the bottom of the garden?
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Pixies between his ears...ORT is back to "normal".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Pixies between his ears
Just shot my morning coffee all over the monitors. Thanks. 
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And you were doing so well until you went back onto the mushrooms... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I prefer him when he is like this (it was ~4.45 a.m. his time when he posted this, so your assumptions about Mushrooms are not far off the mark, my guess is speed though)
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If you hold up a paper with a black dot on it, Others will see the dot only when asked what they saw. The black mark on the sun was from the planet Mercury standing between us and the sun for half of a day, the same amount of time the Shepherd (Jesus Christ) spent on the cross to stand between his sheep (mankind) and the burning rage of God.
Venus represents a fall, as a fall from heaven and become visible in the morning, but to rise again to be the evening star (as above/so below). The image of the black spot on the sun due to the shadow of Mercury references our sin, which appeared at Eden, then was brushed aside by the work of Christ.
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If you're really serious about losing weight, you can get rid of five kilos really quick by having your head chopped off.
I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't make much difference to your postings here.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: you can get rid of five kilos really quick by having your head chopped off.
Would I have to go to Syria to find some people willing to do it? Or are there some in the Netherlands now?
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UnlockSecrets4WeightLoss wrote: Or are there some in the Netherlands now?
I can think of 1 willing to do it for you.
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PompeyThree wrote:
I can think of 1 willing to do it for you.
Oh he meant it in that kind of way? 
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Hey, P3, shall we get a goldfish? It'd be easier to talk to.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Do you frequently forget which person you are, in a large crowd of people?
Do you frequently reply to one person and think they are someone else?
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Were you born an irrational idiot, or was there a special school you had to attend?
Will Rogers never met me.
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