If two's company, and three's a crowd, then whats four and five ?

A man was just doing his job when his suit was torn. Why did he die three minutes later?

A word I know,
Six letters contain,
Subtract just one,
And twelve is what remains.

who is silent in the parliament?

Two guards were on duty outside a barracks. One faced up the road to watch for anyone approaching from the North. The other looked down the road to see if anyone approached from the South. Suddenly one of them said to the other, "Why are you smiling?"

How did he know his companion was smiling?

1. What does:
TIM JOB
represent?

2. What does:
MO_ _
represent?

I am a three digit number.
My tens digit is five more than my ones digit.
My hundreds digit is eight less than my tens digit.
What number am I?

You have a roll of cloth 1km long. You have a machine which cuts this roll into pieces of 10-meter-long cloth.

How long would it take for the machine to cut the roll if each cut took 4 secs?

If I remove one from eleven it becomes Ten and if I remove one from nine also becomes Ten. How?

How do you go from 98 to 720 using just one letter?