I was wondering where you were, also, before getting into it!
It is the seal between the toilet and the drain pipe used in the US.
A number of companies make them, or, more specifically, seem to just repackage them. Check your hardware store or plumbing supply place.
Searching for “wax ring” and “toilet” should bring something up.
Cork grease is perfectly fine, too. It’s not grease like you cook with, but very, very similar to a toilet bowl wax ring. Pluse, I like the convenient carrying tube in comes in…
Eric
Ski wax also comes in that type of packaging.
I live on the eastern edge of the great plains…the nearest mountain is at least 600 miles away!
I really think we make a big deal about what kind of wax/grease to use on our tennons, and personally I’m willing to bet the biggest issue is to simply use something!
So skiwax, cork grease, bol-wax, heck, I bet chaptstick (the plain kind) would work great.
Eric
…bet ya still have toilets.
Jumbuk, sloppy (or floppy) joints are caused by too little thread. With a properly threaded tenon. grease or wax should only provide lubrication for smoother assmebly/break-down, in addition to creating a more air-tight seal.
Cheers,
- Ryan
Or improperly wrapped… the center can be a bit lower that the edges but it should not be higher.
I’ve been thinking about that one…
I’ll bet you will be able to get internet access and Fed Ex soon… 
Laugh at me all you want…but I’ve seen the inside of a real, functional outhouse and despite sticking my head in the hole, I didn’t see any bol-wax!
We’re OK on the internet and Fex Ex front, though, but it’s flat around here. I do think there may be one ski shop in town that also organizes trips to Colorado, but our sporting goods stores don’t stock that kind of stuff so ski-wax would be nearly mythical in these parts.
My parents did buy me a pair of skis when I was a kid (they found them at a garage sale). The biggest hill around here is about 20 feet tall, and let me tell you skiing down that wasn’t worth the effort. BTW - sledders call that hill suicide hill…tells you something about how flat the area is, doesn’t it?
Eric
We have moons up in the mountains. No out house, no wax ring, just the seat & hole.
I haven’t been in Kansas since December of 1969, but I don’t imagine that it has acquired many topographical features since then.
It works, but not nearly as good as Bol-Wax. 
Bol-Wax works better on your lips than chapstick, too. It’s nigh onto impossible to eat it off.
Eric. Honey. I live in the outhouse capital of America (except maybe for rural Vermont – any opinion, Brad?), and we are all losing sleep here wondering what you were doing sticking your head in the hole.
Please tell me you weren’t having to look for wasp’s nests.
Or maybe you were gathering beeswax?
Ah Cathy, to bravely ask the question that we all wanted to know the answer to, but were afraid to ask…
atta girl!
Well, you know what they say about fools, angels, and big piles of … erm. Suffice it to say I’m no stranger to gleefully stomping my feet into you-know-what! 
BTW, is that sign pointing to your barn facilities? Speaking of, how’s Wonder Filly? <sigh?>
OK, back to matters at hand. Or wherever.
All the best,
The Privy Council.
…just part of the daily routine!
Bit to the east…and a lot farther from sea level. The barn facilities are typical…outside behind the trailer!
Ma’s thinking of sitting her, soon as she gets up the nerve.
Good luck to her! I bet she’s going to be just fine, esp. since your Chief Trainer does things right from the sound of it.
And on the “Just Wrong” front … I took my avatar <— over there for her first trip off the farm yesterday; a nearly-3-hour trail ride. (about her 10th time under tack, period) Turns out Silly Filly is very opinionated about ditches, cliffs, streambeds, and the like, preferring to go her own way rather than follow in the hoofprints of her older and wiser companions – even if that means crashing thru entire stands of tree trunks.
Ouch!
Better work on that steering a little more. 
But overall, she was brilliant. And so brave! Even helped head a few cows and climbed a cliff. I’m excited; I think she’ll be a grand little endurance horse. But just in case … want to trade a pure Polish Arab for Av? yeah, right.
Ya know, I have seen that before!
We had a seasonal stream (drainage ditch) at the last place. It went through the padock that the kids spend their first winter in. Shelter on one side, food on the other, after a couple of hundred crossings…
Hope she just took out your knees and your fingsers are okay!
Wow! That’s a real horse? I had no idea! Niiiice!
Now I know where I’m evacuating to next storm here . . .
Hey, this topic has really taken off!
Just a follow-up post to say that I tried Vaseline petroleum jelly and it worked fine. Now my flute corner is nicely set up with a bottle of almond oil, the jar of Vaseline (the chemist lady must really wonder what I do in my spare time), my custom-made wooden cleaning stick and a box of paper tissues. The combination of oiling the inside of the flute and greasing the thread has kept moisture out of the tenon, so it should help prevent cracking over the longer term.
Thanks for all the comments. Not sure about the Bol-wax, don’t think I want anything to do with toilets in my flute!