WAG: "1000/3" often quoted as a VFR minimum, is very commonly misunderstood. It's a combination of two parts of 91.155, the basic VFR minimums chart and 91.155(c) and (d).

It's commonly misunderstood as applying only to towered airports. Perhaps somewhere along the way, milky was corrected about the common misunderstanding and now has a less common misunderstanding that it applies to all airports and all airspace?