This thread reminds me of two things:
1) A somewhat famous quote from bash.org:
DragonflyBlade21: A woman has a close male friend. This means that he is probably interested in her, which is why he hangs around so much. She sees him strictly as a friend. This always starts out with, you're a great guy, but I don't like you in that way. This is roughly the equivalent for the guy of going to a job interview and the company saying, You have a great resume, you have all the qualifications we are looking for, but we're not going to hire you. We will, however, use your resume as the basis for comparison for all other applicants. But, we're going to hire somebody who is far less qualified and is probably an alcoholic. And if he doesn't work out, we'll hire somebody else, but still not you. In fact, we will never hire you. But we will call you from time to time to complain about the person that we hired.
2) All the brother comments reminded me of this joke:
This girl brings home a guy from the bar. She starts kissing him and they strip each other down. All the while she slowly leads him into the bedroom. Pushing him gently on the bed, she leaps on top of him, leaning forward and kissing him, she stops only for a moment and whispers "Make love to me like Ricky Martin would!" softly into his ear. The man looks her in the eyes and says "Okay, where's your brother?"